Flight Near the airport lives a girl Whose heart is winged. She might take flight Were her life not so heavy. Within the airport fence are flowers That wish to transition. Something in them wants to be What the world says they aren't. On the runway a man works Loading and unloading luggage. How many lives has he, groaning, lifted? His back is sore from the weight of them. From this green place we shall Vault to other green places, Leaving this girl, these flowers, this man Who knows what a life weighs behind. May they one day know this Weightlessness, one day look down On a world that is growing Smaller without them.
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Flight Near the airport lives a girl Whose heart is winged. She might take flight Were her life not so heavy. Within the airport fence are flowers That wish to transition. Something in them wants to be What the world says they aren't. On the runway a man works Loading and unloading luggage. How many lives has he, groaning, lifted? His back is sore from the weight of them. From this green place we shall Vault to other green places, Leaving this girl, these flowers, this man Who knows what a life weighs behind. May they one day know this Weightlessness, one day look down On a world that is growing Smaller without them.