When You Fly - July 3, 2025

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