I Just Want To Fly Away

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I sigh
long and sad
     I have years
lifetimes
           oceans of sadness
to let go . . . 
from  d e e p ,   deep  inside me
                  I just want to  F L Y  away-
but I am walking . . . 
it is WINTER
      with a freezing wind
the snow is  c r u n c h i n g  under my feet
                       I smell churned up earth
the DECAY of dead flowers
             and voices
                    from the graves I pass by . . . 
the day is   d a r k
                         no sun shines
just thick dark clouds hang like ghosts 
    and it is snowing
               the sky is  w e e p i n g  white
hidden, a bird cries like a new baby
                         I just want to fly  a w a y
but I follow . . . 
the hearse carrying my baby boy
                   I feel detached
a watcher of this scene
I hear the prayers  DRIFTING among the stones 
      and in the  b a r r e n  snow covered trees
                      the smell of roses is choking
me, then . . . . 
    my family turn and are leaving
            but I am a STATUE  weeping alone
I sigh
long and sad
            and then, I am  
                                 s
                                    i
                                      n
                                        g
                                          i
                                            n
                                               g      a lullaby
    it is drifting and  f l o a t i n g  in the wind . . .   

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October 23, 2017

Free Verse/I Just Want To Fly Away
Copyright Protected, ID 951951


Written for the contest, Deep and Dark II
sponsor, Laura Loo

First Place

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