Azure (Before)

Unbroken vast sky above a calm sea
Touching imperceptible horizon

Pressing on in flight
In air too dry, too light
Trusting
An internal compass and a song
Driven
By knowledge that to stay would be wrong

This infinite blue has beauty
But I need a break from the trance
It’s less a drive than a duty
It’s not a migration, it’s a dance

(Poetry Scales 83)

after