Dark Bird

There is a dark bird

watching
...a dark bird

waiting
There is no use

to wonder
where his gaze

does fall
His eye is

upon us all
He is there

just out of sight
...every day

and every night
in the day’s sunlight...
and in night’s blackness

Against his stare

all are defenseless
Behind the shadows

built by the sun
above the meadows

where the creeks run
fed by the rivers

once so free...
I sense a dark bird

watching
...watching

and waiting for me...

Background Sequence by Doug McKenzie