Flying Blind

New to building a family and
without recourse to seeking advice
from the usual sources of wisdom
by consultation or library stack
access, the pair fell back on reliance
of inbred group memory and
resolved to practise method. Two
nests were almost completed
then abandoned, but the third
attempt, though lacking aesthetic,
succeeded, and the female dutifully
laid her male-fertilized eggs
while he spent weeks in nearby
devoted attendance, gifting her
with writhing worms. Faith in 
their parenthood destiny has been
rewarded with mother robin
warming her nestlings and
both parents consumed with the
need to feed and feed and feed
their fledglings in the desperate
need to fulfill nature's blueprint
for survival; trapped in a net that
led them from carefree independence
to nerve-wracking pleasure- and
leisure-destroying responsibility.