spread its wings
and before I knew
we were airborne—
I was taken high up
into the vast sky
Everything I considered
meaningful started
turning into minuscule—
a quiet revelation
as the bird took flight
Thousands of feet
above my native ground,
I felt helpless,
yet filled with hope—
my quiet submission
to the bird’s grandeur
Passing through
phases of the sky—
from bright and blue
to dark and gloomy,
from calm and serene
to harsh and turbulent—
the bird remained unfazed
It had befriended the sky—
knew the vastness so well,
it glided through emptiness,
sometimes it seemed
to doze midair
Carrying me across the ocean,
flying past spans of fields—
the bird dropped me
onto a land unknown
like a mother
releasing a child