Literal interpretation of poem
1A Crippled man who has been hardened by war, stands alone on a silent street. 4The man gets a cold feeling, which he first experienced in war, that somebody is watching him. 5The man turns to see a small child standing next to a tree, with a black bird in it. 7The man angrily struggles to walk over to the child and 8asks him why he is so rude to mock a crippled man. 9The man notices that the child is blind. The young boy does not reply but only smiles back because he has a new friend to talk to. 11The man is startled by the boy’s reaction and he realizes that he was the one to judge the boy wrongly.12The man starts to softly cry but the blind child does not see him. 13The man asks the child how, at such a young age, he is able to gather up so much courage to smile after all that he has lost.17The wise child does not reply again but simple stares at the tree. The man looks over to see that the bird he previously saw was actually a very colorful bird and there is no longer a silence. 19the man hears the bird softly whisper to him, to fly you do not need wings.