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our cranes outside the window
October 24, 2022
you wake
with the sun
you sleep
on the moon
you call
with the wind
and you live
in my mind.
oh great cranes
fly me away
take me to the stars
in the great sky sea
your great wings
both gray and wide
lift my spirit
across this plane.
i envy you –
your freedom,
for my wings
are clipped
from the jaws
of the unexcused
and the grasp
of swallowed guilt.
oh how i yearn
to be so free,
to let go of this
wretched planet
and break away
from my shackles
and finally,
finally, fly again.
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"our cranes outside the window" is a free-verse poem written in homage to a family of cranes that my mother and I frequently see traversing our town as well as a personal statement about the want to unshackle from life's hardships and to "fly free," so-to-speak.