Let Us Start from Here

 Shed the skin of human and come with me.

Adopting the life of a bird.

Carefree, flying, free.  

What do the cares of people mean to us?

Watch as my clothes are erased and I stand as I was birthed.

Watch as my arms evolve, sprouting feathers, my skin stretching to form gliders.

Watch as my nose grows to a point, as my eyes become more predatory. 

Watch as the fat and muscle of my legs slides away and leaves what is necessary.  

Watch as my brain reorients itself into a survivor, losing human knowledge and replaced with bird instinct. 

And now watch as I practice my first attempts at flight.  I fall; I stumble; I crash

but then

I fly!  

I do it!

Soaring over roofs, over human existence, over trees, barking dogs, screaming kids, burning dinners.  

I just fly.

If my bird beak could do it, I would smile and laugh, but that's my human brain speaking.  

What I've known is gone.  It's no more.  And I'm falling, stumbling, crashing. 

But watch me because soon,

I will be flying.  

June 9, 2021