Look for Yourself

spoken word version: youtu.be/iPLXF_7g61A

I’m told it’s harmful to see someone else

when you look into a mirror,

or to wish that looking back was something 

to call your own, when there is no resemblance

I see you

living like a trapeze artist,

no net,

just

winging it

Starring up, I wonder what the wind feels like.

Or how it is 

to throw off the weight of gravity

like clothing

I see the opening.

Extending my wings...

going for it...

I slam into the glass,

breaking my neck in envious flight.