Just Off

The Bird flew

But unlike anything I knew

It bent its wings back 

As its neck seemed to snap

And as it moved towards the ground

In its jerking, unnatural way

The Bird landed

Then I noticed it did it

Without any feet

It hopped around pecking 

Without any feeling

Then as it snapped up a stone

And swallowed it whole

It looked at me once

And I felt so repulsed

I cowered away as I stared

As it eyes glowed with something else

It turned away at once and yet I realized

That day had suddenly turned to night

And my hair had gone from brown to white

I ran home by then, book still in hand

As my eyes watered and the fear took hold

But nothing I did can make me forget

That strange, awful bird I met.