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Black Bird

March 12, 2019
By Staleisha SILVER, No, Alabama
Staleisha SILVER, No, Alabama
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Oh fly little blackbird

Over this blinding edge

Don’t you remember this fear and despair

Outside it is snowing embers

Fly through this sky set ablaze in fire and smoke

Red paint smeared on the bathroom floor

But in the outside world there is so much more

The sky is crumbling brought down by the flame

Outside it is snowing embers

Red paint is smeared on the bathroom floor

But outside there is so much more

Oh fly little blackbird

Over this blinding edge

Don’t you remember this fear and despair

Oh fly little blackbird

Pray for the children that cry everyday

For their mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers

Oh fly little blackbird

For I am only a faceless soul that has yet to see the light

Because that is the truth of war


The author's comments:

I entered this piece in the Appelley Publishing 2018/19 contest.  This piece will be published in The Appelley Publishing 2019 Rising Stars Collection.


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