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The Blue Kite
The kite waves gallantly overhead.
Its partner stands below,
admiring its beauty as it floats among the clouds.
Appearance means no less
of the beauty
which this kite beholds.
The swayed ribbons that follow
will only mend to please the clouds.
The wind beckons,
allures
the kite so peacefully.
No harm is to come
to those who stand before the blue kite.
What a wondrous blue,
painted on by clouds that whisper
"If I will stay"
to the kite.
The wind draws the kite closer
as if to say,
"Let them wonder where the future will walk-
but they will only walk, not soar with us."
And only the kite will leave us behind.
The prediction can only be the truth
for the cloud is too beguiling to resist.
The raindrops and snowflakes
dance,
fall,
play with the kite.
Those that stare will wonder if the sun
is part of these misleading games.
For it unmaks that truth
of the dispodency
of the kite's blue.
The kite will not stop to walk with those below
who look up and wish to be part of the adventure.
The kite doesn't know how they wish to be part of the story-
the story that tells of beauty undone.
In the empty space
where its relationship with the sky fell,
there was hope of a better loyalty.
A loyalty with the sky and earth.
So help me that the blue kite will be grounded
by gravity.
Will the kite stay?
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I wrote this a few years ago, around the time I was feeling agitated with a situation between some friends and me, about secrets, some trapping themselves in a bubble and not letting others in, and pursuasion.