The wonderment
in your eyes for worlds you have not explored yet
Can light up a city
Your ambition
Buzzes through your aura
Like an electric fence, protecting your dreams
And as much as you want to lift off and soar
You can’t.
Your wings are
Bent at the tip
A little broken
Too small to carry you to the heights you want to achieve
So
While you’re waiting to heal
Grow with me
Walk the Earth beside me and let’s continue to discover the little things about ourselves like
What spot in the city makes us feel like we’re home again
What makes our jaw tick and our fists clench
What kind of coffee keeps us pushing through the day
And what tea helps us curl up in fuzzy blankets at night
And while we do that
Let’s trip
Stumble
Get hurt together
Because you can’t ever fly if you’re so afraid of what hitting the ground feels like
Let’s keep our feet on the ground and our head in the clouds
Let your hair loose and feel every single drop of change
Fall from the sky and seep into your skin
Don’t let them dampen your feathers
But show you that you need to be roughed up
To be able to face the thunderstorms up ahead
You’ll be faced with a lot of obstacles
A lot of road blocks
A lot of situations that will make you want to rip your wings out
Call it quits
And never want to look up at the sky ever again
But sweetheart,
The more you fall the higher you rise
And I know
I know you think you’ll be too heavy to fly
But honey,
You’ve been chained down for so long
You deserve to be free
From the heaviness of the world
And yourself
You are strong.
Brave.
Independent.
And I am glad to run this race with you.
But promise me,
That when you are no longer broken
When your wings are no longer a burden
But an escape
You will remember me.
As the one thing that keeps you rooted
