SCATTERED FEATHERS

I'm lost, my wind to fly on has stilled

My open sky is harsh, brittle, abandoned

I am alone

With my torn wings

Scattered feathers


I have been

Thrown down from the sky

I've forgotten how to walk

The ground does not accept me

I am a creature of the Earth

I was a creature of the sky


All I've got now are scattered feathers

Torn wings

I'm crying now, they've left me

Left me alone, left me nothing to live on

No wings to fly on, no hope to hold

Nothing, nothing


But she comes, telling me to get up

Learn to fly again

Keeps telling me, over and over again

I'm not alone

It repeats in my head


I finally listen

Mending torn wings and scattered feathers takes time

Time which no man holds, time which cannot be borrowed

But that does not matter

I'm looking inside, finding a heart

Finding wings, finding a hope to hold

A wind to fly upon


I'm in the sky

I'm on the ground

I am the hawk in the sunset

I am the human in the war