Title: High Flight
by: Nicole Kitty

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings

Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of the sun-split clouds

I've wheeled and soared and swung,
High in the sunlit silence.

Hovering there,
I've chased the shouting wind along
Flinging my eager craft through the footless halls of air.

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never kat, or even eagle flew.

And now the high untrespassing sanctity of space
a frontier which I wish to face.