Flying

I long to soar with the birds

So free

So beautiful 

Weaving through the tree limbs

Beaconing me 

Fly with us, they seem to whisper

Fly

And so

One windy day

I grab a tall ladder

The tallest I can find

And climb

Up the tallest tree

Until i sway with the branches in the breeze

At the upmost branches 

I stand 

I watch

I wait

And then

As the birds dive around me

I jump

Pushing off the branch 

A laugh escapes my lips

As air rushes around me 

Tangling my hair

The sun is on my back

The ground is far below

I have never felt so free

I am flying