First Flight Poem by Dorsey Baker

When the airplane takes off
I am aboard
I hold tight
to my seat
blood draining from my knuckles!
I can hardly
catch my breath!
the airplane starts to moving
slowly
then quickly picks up speed!
soon it is off the runway
and fast into the sky
as we go higher
the world below us
become smaller
in size
As I gaze out of my window
I see the little people
in the little world below us!
the pilot is in full control
he is taking us from one place
to another place
the flight wasn't long
and it was so smooth
but I was so nervous!
because I had never in my life
flown in an airplane before!
never before!