Going the Distance

Once an eagle had a dream To fly to a foreign land An impossible task, yet it seemed Was the one that was at hand Although it was encouraged much By the ones it did adore Things bothered it like pessimism and such It believed in failure for sure But thankfully that sun-filled day The news came to be That the eagle could finally fly away And they were all filled with glee But now months later some time has passed And the eagle has learned the hard way That the first step has been surpassed Yet each day becomes more lonely and gray It looks away from the sunset’s rays Toward the eastern coast And hopes and prays for much betters days At what it longs for the most Yet, the eagle plans to go back to where it was raised And it holds its head up with no resistance Dreaming it could one day be amazed At its chance to be going the distance