The Lost Kites

Do you remember our old kites With their yarn-tied knots Taking to the skies As we ran through the fields? Do you remember when they lifted From broken threads Vanishing into the lungs of the sky? I remember almost nothing from that time I don't know what I ate or drank But I remember the kites flying away Leaving a void in our poor small souls Now, after I've lived my life as best I could I've left it all, my friend Everything Call me what you want With your rational speech I care for nothing Nothing can help I'm wandering downhearted through the skies Looking for those runaway kites They're like erased wishes Ones I've missed all my life Making me feel that I could never be The one I wanted to be