Mary E. Rogers

PAINLESS IN FLIGHT

I sometimes live in long ago
I sometimes feel I’m there
I cannot live in the present
I don’t know if I’m here or where

Time passes and days go by
I do not see them pass
So while I live within my dreams
It’s like living in a darkened glass

I’m missing out on today’s joys
Because yesterday holds me fast
I want to really live today
And move beyond the past

I want to wipe away my memory
And begin to live again
In a world where there is laughter
And the sun can enter in

But today there is no sunshine
Today there is only dreams
Of hurts and pain and sadness
And the sounds of anguished screams

Behind the clouds the sun still shines
And somewhere the world is bright
I think at last I’ll find that world
When I at last take flight

This poem was inspired by “My Choice” – ©Copyright March 24, 2007 by Mark I. Kirkmeyer and, together with that poem, was the inspiration for “Flying in Formation” – ©Copyright March 24, 2007 by Faye Sizemore