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Hollow Wings
December 7, 2016
Hollow wings
Lithe little lies lying upon littered light lines
Making us think we can fly
High, high in the sky
Too close to the sun
Melting, breaking
Falling, crashing
If only we had listened
Ignored, thought we knew better
"No point in going on," he said
And with those wings, he took flight
If only we had watched
We would have looked through those
Dark, dark eyes - through the wet panels
And saw those wings, deep within
The hollow, crying wings
We would have known, then
Understood why
He took flight on those wings
The wings that couldn't fly
"Why?" we cried,
When we understood, then
When we looked back
Into our reflections
Our hollow, crying wings.
© by Steve S., Marblehead, MA
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