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Shedding Wings

The last day

For the last time

A small team of five

Through everything we held through

Now it's time to say goodbye

 

Not to each other,

But to our wings.

The wings that we have grown

Through everything we held through

Now it's time to say goodbye

 

To the skies we'd no longer

Soar through,

To the fragile ties we've built

Through everything we held through

Now it's time to say goodbye

 

To a home that we have found

A cozy one of five and more

To everything we enjoy

Through everything we have held through

Now it's time to say goodbye

 

All our efforts

And all our dreams

Now all amounting to naught

Through everything they have held through

Now it's time to say goodbye

 

Thrown into a brand new place

With strangers, maybe enemies

We have to start again

Through all the pain to learn square one

Now it's time for us to die

 

Have our legacy

Fade away

Replaced by another one

Never to be continued again,

To just live in our memories

 

We may or may not

Choose to leave

But either way, it's still set:

What's ours will still

Be taken away

 

But in our hearts

Our very core

We'll still be yearning

To once more,

Soar

 

We'd always belong

To the Air, though Grounded,

Our eyes turn

Skywards

Forevermore

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Oct 31, 2013
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"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

~Leonardo Da Vinci

We'll always be Air Batch 7.

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