Not A Bird In Sight

Javon Goard
May 10, 2022
Photo by Glen Carrie on Unsplash

The sky is battered and bruised.
The leaves shake with anxiety.
Branches snap off trees like
A pencil in the hand of a wild first grader.

Not a bird in sight.

Did they know?

Do birds sense danger all around them?

I guess birds do not owe humans
Any favors.

Thunder claps its hands and stomps its feet.
Lightening makes itself be known with
Its white streaks that can blind a star.

The trees tussle and rustle with each other.

I do not understand why?

Why do they fight even though they all
Face the same danger?

Who am I too judge?

The wind is the guiding hand
Of what humanity calls direction.

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Javon Goard

I am a poet. I am a games researcher. I am a roller skater.