I want to go up
Where the endless horizon
Meets the burning blue.
I want to soar free
Midst the gulls and the eagles
Where the crowds are few.
I dream of the glide
Across the open heavens,
Effortless and free.
I long for the feel
Of brazen winds caressing
Every part of me.
Hurrah for the sky,
That veiling curtain of gauze
Rippling overhead!
I'd never come down
From those magnificent heights.
I'd live there instead.