Smudged sky
(too many children and too many fingerprints)
And a dark
and light
presence
Black as night
Lighter than air
Circling
Drifting
Spiraling
Swaying
I want to be you!
Lift my hopes with your wings
Carry my heart as you soar
I want to be you.
Circling
Drifting
Spiraling
Swaying
Black lightning on a lugubrious template
Please,
Oh, please!
Let me be you!
Limits expounded only by winds
Walls are- quite simply,
Meaningless
And I am all-powerful.
These racked limbs will cause no woe
When I am sailing peacefully above
These sunken forearms
Replaced with strong wings
These twisted ankles
Spreading into scaled talons
This otiose body
Looking on with vacant eyes
As I crest over mountains
And swoop into valleys,
These gleaming white squares never suited me
This curved beak will serve me better
And this silly yellow skin
Never offered me protection
From wind, nor rain
But these sleek dark feathers
Make me fast as a jet.
Once I was sad and grey and hollow,
But I will be strong and fearless and whole.