My Black Bird in the Sky

by Christopher Abreu Rosario

Black Bird in the sky,
How you fly so high.
Your wings spread so wide,
Makes my imagination reach over the tide.

You swoop and you dive,
Through the skyline.
How I envy your freedom, your courage and your stride.
I wish I too could fly so high.

Slowly you come down,
Like a contracting bellow without a sound.
It is then that I see you are a bag,
Just like any other trash.

You lay in the street,
Like an alley full of dreams.
But today in my mind,
You are my Black Bird in the sky.