I stand upon the edge, the sky a sheet of glass,
the wind below too wide, the fall too slow to pass.
I know the shape of stillness like a second skin,
and every thought of motion trembles deep within.
I dreamt once of a leap, a clean and burning flight,
but dreams are made of ash and fold away from light.
The air is full of space, but none of it is mine —
I reach into the blue, it doesn’t reach in kind.
I do not wear a chain, no tether holds me fast,
just all the quiet weight of future and of past.
The silence calls me near, then pulls its promise back,
and what I think is courage slips into a crack.
I have no song to sing, no signal for the sky,
no vow beneath my feet, no reason not to try.
But standing here too long becomes its own descent —
I fall a little more with every breath unspent.
And still I stay, though nothing here was made to keep.
Not every flight begins — and some begin too deep..