Flight

She is spinning like a planet

She is never quite at ease

I am drawn to the destruction

Even as I fear release

But no matter how we wander

It’s the purpose of the fact

I can alter my behavior

But I cannot take it back

If I alter my behavior

To look and not to touch

To live as a creator

And the face you’ve come to trust

An imaginary answer

Like a prick under the skin

Like the scratch of an adventure

As it’s begging to come in

Flight

For the right to your life

For the right to the lightness you’ve found

Flight

For the need to come down

Flight

For the right to your life to depart from the will of the earthbound

Flight

You will touch the ground

It is cold above the cloud-line

And my hands are knuckled white

I am planning my reaction

When I fix you in my sight

If we do not plummet earthwards

Or burn up in the sun

When my feet are on the ground again

And I feel what I have done

Or perhaps an anticlimax

With nothing to discuss

An unspoken understanding

Dissipated wanderlust

With a story so specific

That you know it can’t be true

I will alter my behavior

I will fix myself to you

Flight

For the right to your life

For the right to the lightness you’ve found

Flight

For the need to come down

Flight

For the right to your life to depart from the will of the earthbound

Flight

You will touch the ground