Once my heart took flight,
Darted high into the sky,
Flew too close to the sun
and doubted it could ever fly

My heart crashed into the sea,
it slipped beneath the waves,
sank deep into the blue abyss
and waited to be saved

Soon it saw a lantern light
bobbing to and fro,
my heart jumped a little
and rushed up to say hello

Within the light a horror,
a twist of tangled fangs.
a jaw that opened wide and then
again crashed with a bang

My heart cried out in fear,
and then took flight once more,
Until ripped and bruised and bleeding
it lay upon the ocean floor

And there it sat in solitude
no hope, nor dream, nor wish,
but while it lay despairing
along came a little fish

“What are you doing here?” it asked,
“Pumping tears into the sea?”
“I flew, I burned, I fell, I drowned,
I fled, now let me bleed”

“Wow!” said the fish, mouth agape,
admiration in its eye
“You flew like a bird? You kissed the sun?
You dove out of the sky?”

“You swam into the trenches?
Fled monsters in the black?
Don’t tell me more you big brave heart
or my heart will attack!”

“All I have done is swim here,
hanging near the ocean floor,
That you’ve done too (quite well in fact)
Yet you’ve done so much more!”

“You inspire me dear friend,
I am forever in your debt!”
and with a little shake of its little tail
it swam off in a fret.

My heart sat there for a moment,
bewildered and bemused,
Then with a sigh it mustered:
“Well, what have I to lose?”

And so it paddled forth,
for what else could it do?
Though it had no direction
it couldn’t stay amid the blue.

I don’t know where my heart is going
but I know it mustn't cease
I know that it will find itself
safe from singe and sea and teeth.