I May Also Fly

He who leaps for the sky may fall, it's true. But he may also fly.
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

Birds fly high, up away in the sky

Bird within flaps wings in reply

I gaze and gaze deep in the sky

To catch sight, match its height

Where is the line that needs crossing?

Where is that flag I need move past?

Birds, still flying and forever will

Here on ground I’m waiting still

Often they come down for me to sway

I keep fledging my wings to fly away.

Beasts who roar, deep in the forest

A roar rises and buries in my chest

I see mortals living the lives I want

Things I fancied, or I’d have planned

Where is the map that I once had in my hand?

Where is that road that was laid here before?

Beasts, they can never die and never will

That roar within is kicking and alive still

One day these roars will echo all the way

I’ll pave those roads and briskly run away.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly. 

― Langston Hughes