There once was a girl who wanted to fly.
She longed to see the whole world passing by
In colors no one else knew.

                            Her mother said, “People can’t fly, silly girl.”
                       Her father scoffed, “You’ve no wings to unfurl.”
                                          But in her mind wings then grew.

Her classmates shouted and taunted and teased,
“That girl’s mind is decidedly diseased!”
But she knew their jeers weren’t true.

                                      Uncertainty quelched in an iron fist,
                                  Temptation of flight too hard to resist,
                                             She knew what she had to do.

Her heart fluttered like a bird in a cage.
The wind stole her thoughts to write the last page
For her story to debut.

                       No more poison words spat from snarled lips.
                    No more dreams swiped from her frail fingertips
                                          Now that she murmured adieu.

People all told her she would fall, flail, fail,
But she spread her wings and hope set her sail
Into the alluring view.

                    She wouldn’t do what they told her to
                                  And so, she flew.
                              To unreachable heights.