Leaving Behind the Endless Fields of Corn and Soybeans

The Cloud Gate

Being among the clouds

Seems so freeing

To be a bird

Soaring on air currents

Diving to the ground

Only to pull up and spread their wings

Catching the wind

Being among skyscrapers

Makes me feel so small

So insignificant

So far away

From the clouds

But at the cloud gate

I think

This is it

Here

I can reach the sky

Spread my wings

And take flight

But I can't

My roots are too firmly knit into the ground

My wings

Aren't strong enough

To pull me off the ground

To take me

To the clouds

I'm tangled

At the gate

Wanting to cross over

And into the sky

To finally

Be free

But the town I come from

Does it's job a little to well

Attending to me

Making sure my roots

Are intact

So my wings

Can never take me far

~

Give them roots
And give them wings
~unknown