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An old poem - 2002

[with broken wings] , somehow fly

They say you should stay positive
and not into sad thoughts give
and when you only get one life
to the full is how they say you should live.

But on top of the world I feel today
I don't feel sad or lonely
to everyone I say "G'Day"
but the people around me are so cold and stoney.

They try to hold you back from who you want to be
and they try to stop you
from reaching that cloudless, blue sky
by not letting you be free.

.....Yet they give you crushed and broken wings
and tell you, with them, to somehow fly.

2002

Poetry by liz munro