For the birds.
On the edge, 20 stories up...
facing dark, with a racing heart.
I felt the fire of life once...
but it turns out I was chasing sparks.
Once the pacing starts, fate remarks
"Take your mark"
So I brace and place my faith in gravity.
I've fallen from grace,
now I'm falling through space.
Prepared to embrace earth savagely...
...happily.
Yet half of me is trapped in me,
displeased of relegating.
Both halves of a man...
who'se last thought was birds...
then screams...
as scenes were devestating.
Dreams of elevating...
celebrating courtship with the cumulus.
Euphoria...
feeling consumed with this,
exhibiting my exuberance.
Shitting on pitiful nuisances,
who attempt to copy, but lack force.
Unaware my love affair with the air...
was courtesy care of a crash course.
By mother...
from nest I was cast forth,
a test of success or of sacrifice.
For the present tense...or the afterlife.
In heaven's sense,
fuck practice flights.
It's sail and fly, or fail and die.
Is this to be a boring story of gory grounds
...or a tale of skies to trail and glide?
I'm pale, and high.
I've been on trees... as long as I recall.
A catch a buzz from power lines, smelling like flowers, prime...
...as long as I don't fall.
And as long as I don't fall...
I'll stay my way, above the crowds.
If not I get a quick lift till' I'm in thick whisps that surround...
It's a game of doves, but the same it does...
I came to love the clouds.
Now I'm tangled up it sounds...
For the love of a hunger that hollows me.
Never left to rest or settle,
by a predator that follows me.
I'm not the type to roll for it...
to welter or to wallow see.
I hope to change your head...
thinking how hard can life for a swallow be?
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"The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood." - The Buddha
“Do not confuse peace of mind with spaced-out insensitivity. A truly peaceful mind is very sensitive, very aware.” - Tenzin Gyatso His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama
"Life is a series of serious choices, theories formed through experience never mysterious forces." -Stic Man (Dead Prez)
"The world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are Omnipotent.” -Joe Strummer
Last edited by Catharsis; 03-28-2012 at 07:06 PM.
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