Learning To Fly

Into the distance, a ribbon of black

Stretched to the point of no turning back

A flight of fancy on a windswept field

Standing alone my senses reeled

A fatal attraction is holding me fast,

How can I escape this irresistible grasp?



Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies

Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I



Ice is forming on the tips of my wings

Unheeded warnings, I thought, I thought of everything

No navigator to find my way home

Unladened, empty and turned to stone

A soul in tension -- that's learning to fly

Condition grounded but determined to try



Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies

Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I



Above the planet on a wing and a prayer,

My grubby halo, a vapour trail in the empty air,

Across the clouds I see my shadow fly

Out of the corner of my watering eye

A dream unthreatened by the morning light

Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night



There's no sensation to compare with this

Suspended animation, a state of bliss



Can't keep my mind from the circling skies

Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I