What If I Can Fly Poem by Lenny Camacho

What If I Can Fly

Rating: 5.0


you can't tolerate
the truth
behind the words
'I can fly'
- but I can fly

and when I shut my eyes
I actually see better,
but you have been corrupted
and think that we all should
be just like you
a little bitter and miserable.

I can fly - I say
while hiding a smirk
from the crowd
and folding my wings
back into my immense skull

all you do is frown
and disregard me
with empty, unshiny eyes.

Saturday, October 18, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: poetry
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
aren't we birds, worms, reptiles, water, soil, moon, and the sun, and broken-mended souls?
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Karen Sinclair 24 October 2014

Another beautiful write. This threw me as the last poem I reviewed was portraying life's end and here (to me) is the positivity of youth contrasting with the other character who is jade. I love it when I stumble on a new writer that I appreciate. Tyvm Ps I used to dream I could fly. That dream disappeared. I miss it

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