Chickens peck, scratch, and rest

While the coop wire protects them all around

Not a care or worry they carry

Just eat, squawk, lay eggs, and scratch the ground

Feed thrown through the wire

Falls like golden rain to the earth

Anticipating the treasures from the heavens

They scramble madly for their treat of worth

Oblivious they seem of the opportunist squirrels

Who laboriously gather the wire-clinging grain

Briefly trapped between the beams

And the heavens from which they did rain

A cardinal redbird makes a fast red swoop

To grab his straggling feast there

As the squirrel retreats to hide his treasure

Not at all of the bird aware

Focused on their grain each day

Each to the other was oblivious

The big picture is only revealed

When oblivious is replaced by obvious