Stop.

Stop being a mason without the ring

building brick walls you cannot break through.

Stop pretending they are insurmountable

and you are Humpty Dumpty.

Stop.

Stop being Atlas and shrug it off

like a light dusting of November snow.

Stop believing this is all yours to carry

and that your knees will break.

Stop.

Stop being an earthbound astronaut soldered to the earth

by 12 layers of biaxially-oriented polyethylene terephthalate.

Stop pulling on the heavy boots that

won’t let you fly.

Stop.

And then.



Go.

Be.

Do.

Live.

Fly . . . .