Don't look down

Darius Simpson

bird in the sky says freeze! 
bird in the sky got iron talons 
bird in the sky says i am your god 
bird in the sky says i am not a bird 
bird in the sky casts a wide net 
city-sized viewpoint from the crow’s nest 
to the bird in the sky everything is a meal 
the bird in the sky doesn’t sleep and so 
the bird always catches the worm 
the worm is whoever the bird hungers for 
the worm has no rights the bird must acknowledge
the worm ain’t never went lookin for bird trouble
the bird swears it must consume the worm to survive
now it’s 3:00am and the flap of the bird’s wings
against the makeshift rooftops scattered across downtown
​lets the worms know it’s time to hide or become food

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Darius Simpson is a writer, educator, performer, and skilled living room dancer from Akron, Ohio. He is the author of Never Catch Me now available everywhere. Much like the means of production, he believes poetry belongs to and with the masses. He aims to inspire those chills that make you frown and slightly twist up ya face in approval. Darius believes in the dissolution of empire and the total liberation of Africans and all oppressed people by any means available. Free All Political Prisoners. Free The People. Free The Land.