A Dream


I dreamt I was an Eagle,
Soaring the winds alone.
I sailed through the sky
As a messenger between
The earth and the Stars.
I lived with fierce pride,
Hunting, and crying my
Solitary song to the winds.
I was free - Nothing could bind me
To the earth or to the air.
The day was clear, and cool,
And I looked across my sunlit wings
Only to find looking back,
Another one just like me.
Somehow she had drifted close, across the cloudy sea.
We banked and we dived,
And played tag among the clouds.
Laughing, we burst through a flock
Of startled song-birds,
Not hunting anything except ourselves.
The day’s end drew near,
And as the last golden rays of the sun
Vanished beneath the distant horizon,
We flew apart,
On different currents of air.
Now and then I catch a glimpse of
That magnificent other,
As we each go about our separate ways,
And now I wait, and I hunt
For the time when we can again fly as one.
 
 

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