There’s that sense of awareness you get
When all the birds you knew as friends
Whose times you thought would never end
Have taken flight for the winter, forever gone
Of course they’ll return again in the spring
With degrees of knowledge or a diamond ring
There’s that nagging feeling in your heart
A question perhaps, a pull to something
Like a teenage crush on a pretty face alone
Without much thought about whether your
Thoughts, ambitions, and values would clash
That’s how many bygone ‘ships fall and crash
You wonder if it’s your time to fly and follow
All of the others who have flown away from you
And the ones, so much younger, who did it too
Because sisters, girlfriends, moms and aunts
Felt the calling of their instinct and flew away
Though you’ve never, ever felt it, not in any way
There’s an old saying that’s been long forgotten
In a world which says be different but the same
This timeless saying goes, “To each their own”
Don’t be pressured by what others have done
I assure myself, my time will come someday
But that time, make note, is not this day
