Designated Doodler

I used to look up at the sky As I lay on my skateboard At the end of the driveway And think to myself That you weren’t that far +++++++++++++++++++++ Highlighter green Apples poured off the trees That lined the drive littering the concrete But I would push them aside Rolling back and forth As I stared at the sky +++++++++++++++++++++ Thinking that this was the same sun That wrapped you in light And even though it was hard Maybe you weren’t that far …Just a sky away ….Not that far apart …Just a plane ride from today And we were connected still Because the clouds that rolled over me in the light of day Would hover over you at night, in the sweet Pennsylvania dark +++++++++++++++++++++ Just nine years old I went where I was told My back on the black sandy surface Of a well-worn skateboard That peeled at the corners Nudging apples out of my way As I rocked back and forth In the burning heat of midday With nothing in me that...

He looks up at the sky With an unwavering black eye Spreading dark wings But failing to fly And he stays on the ground Questioning why He's bound to the ground When his siblings can fly Wondering if he'll be left Behind to die A bird with no tale He tries but he fails To fly with no sails He's sitting prey They bring him food But could stop someday Leave him to a life And a death in the grass And fly away. Just a bird Inconsequential Missing an attribute So essential Who never kissed the sun Or touched the sky Just a bird Born with no potential