Clouds

Does it keep you up at night
Like a drip
Like ants crawling fire cross your skin
Like bees too close to your ears
The things we do
How we turn away
Babies dying
Bullies
Saying her name
Me too
The clouds that come
I can't breathe

Does the rain acid your skin
Poison in the food
Way we do the land
A boy in Alabama killed himself
A girl in California
Streets not safe
Day or dark

Do the verses and suras and songs
Feed your hunger
Calm your restless body
Your insides upside down

Have you been on a plane before
A train
A fast car going nowhere
Did you touch the sun
Do you feel lucky
Do you feel safe

Churches burning
School shootings
The crosses
The hoods
The badges
The robes

Maybe this could have been
Some kind of heaven
Some kind of farm where we all eat
Some kind of world without the wars