Words of a Silent Soul - poetry

I want to touch the stars

I want to touch the stars

I want to reach the moon

To do impossible things

To whistle my own tune

I want to be myself

But I want to be somebody else

I wish to whisper longing words

And weave miraculous spells

I want to leap from a cliff

And land on a feather-soft cloud

To hide away in secret

And live my life out loud

I want to be ordinary

But ordinarily extraordinary

To be like a flightless bird

Or a beautifully voiceless canary

I want to be different

But very much the same

But I am only myself

And that, I guess, is just a shame