Where In The Wind

Every branch bending In this moment's breeze A sure and certainty I will not break Against the assaulting Winds of change My hair caught up In the propeller blades Of Autumn's unforgiving gales I surrender to set sail As the migrating birds travel I will not choose to go South Instead settle, nested And allow myself To be well rested In the Northeast tree tops For they have always Given a safe haven For a heart to heal When once you spoke Of cloudless skies Ours to ride, with shared abandon Turned, but to a banning Of this bird's flight Until a kinder hand lifted me Repaired, with a gentleness My wishful wings Releasing me to flutter Farther than your eyes Ever envisioned