January 5, 2014: Leslie

Song: “Leslie” by Nataly Dawn from How I Knew Her

Listen to it here

(photo from thekeyofkels.com)

The wheel creaks

                                and strains

Beneath they all look so worried as they shout up that I shouldn’t be.

They don’t understand, they don’t grasp what it means for me.

Being above trapped

                                in a squeaking straining cabins?

It’s not trapped at all.

Down there, that’s the banal.

Here I’m free

                                I’m flying.

On the ground? The rules, the don’t’s, the must nots

A victim of everyone’s demands and thoughts.

I’d rather here

                                stuck but soaring.