Dreams of Flight

“Don’t wish for something you’ll never have
then you’ll never be disappointed”,

I didn’t wish for anything - I hoped for
A lot of things
A room to myself
Clothes I could wear just once

I dreamed of nothing material, or of this world
Because I didn’t know I could...

But when I dreamed, I could fly
Free like a bird,
looking down on the earth below me
When I opened my arms, and grew wings
I knew then, what it was like to be free

To fly over clothes lines in back yards
To swoop and to soar
To open my arms wide,
and glide, and twist, and turn
in the weightless air

No earth to hold me
And I soared high, in the night’s sky
In the bright moonlight,
never dawns light -
Because in dreams you can be free

I wish again for those dreams
I had in childhood,
They never disappointed,
I smiled in those dreams
That lifted, and allowed me to be me…