When You Fly - July 3, 2025

Gary Hunter
Jul 2
1 min read

you pay a price when

you leave the nest

flying off to a new life, new friends

new adventures in a new world

you leave behind family and friends

that lived with you in that tree

that kind of caring is not so easy

to replace

you might get lucky

nesting in a tree of strangers

but the ones you can count on, who

caringly watched you grow wings

are slipping one by one off the

old branches, replaced by those

who wouldn’t know or recognize

this stranger that shows up

the old you, asking questions

about the missing love

Recent Posts

See All

Judgements - Dec. 3, 2025

sometimes, I’m the cloud looking around the sky, assessing my own kind he’s too fat she’s too thin they’re too bossy, that one’s overly shy those are too white, and those not white enough I dispar

Light's Descent - Nov. 30, 2025

if I could capsulize my life now, it would be late afternoons, a recurring event of time spent staring out the picture window into a quieting backyard, shade chasing the sun’s paintbrush across the wa

Classifieds - Nov. 29, 2025

foreclosed houses, unhoused dogs apartments for rent, souls desperate to rent employment for schemers and dreamers, the mouthless market of buy and sell a blur of need pinned to a bulletin board eve

Comments