we take off and we land
our necessity of days
take on…take off into
the charting of our years
on routes long-established
by others…by ourselves
and we fly passengers…
are attendant to their needs
accordingly in first class…
business…coach…we transport
parcels luggage mail…and we tank
energy to fuel them safely into sky
and we accumulate and jettison desire
not to weigh us heavy into earth…
not to limit soar…not to impair
workings of our parts and send us
crashing into mountains…sinking
into seas…barely reaching shores
we’ve charted on our maps and
lifted to in dreams
Bonnie Marshall
Artwork by Kaye Bishop
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