Description
Self-portrait and poem titled: Take Me With You
A hundred wings cut through the sky
scattered like ink in water
folding, flowing, shifting in the wind’s quiet hands.
I watch with heart full of desire
But my legs fall limp, spine bent toward the horizon
lungs filling with something too light to name.
They do not hesitate
no questions, no second guesses
just the knowing—where to go, when to turn
who to follow, who to lead.
I want to call out
tell them there is room for me, too,
that I could learn the sky,
feel the shape of the wind under my ribs
But my voice is only breath,
swallowed before it reaches them.
They vanish beyond the edge of the sun,
leaving only the hush of air in their place—
and the ache of stillness in my bones.