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Black Feathers
April 15, 2019
You watch me
your eyes, dark and empty
As glass beads, they shatter
My self esteem.
Black mocking birds,
Evil.
You have no right to my secrets.
Always
Eyes on my back
Wings flapping
agitated
Against the wind.
Your caw-caw slices
Through the air
And into my
Heart.
Leave me alone—
A murder,
That’s what we call you.
Then kill me now!
For I’d rather die than live in this feathered
Intrusion— or
Will you teach me your ways?
Let me in, honor the one with eyes sharper
than yours, who saw through this flimsy
attempt at Espionage?
I am the winner.
© Audrey W., Park City, UT
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