Learning To Fly

I have been here
For far too long.

Gracelessly
Stumbling, vainly warding
Inept equilibria, chancing my
Half hearted dance upon that edge:
This brink.

I've been too afraid.
Scared that once I take that
First giddy step, I will fall-
Plummet darkly down and disappear,
Crushed among the jagged sandstone rocks
Scattered like simple ashes to the liberated wind.

So I will not walk. Watch me-
I will hazard this risk, because-
Because- I know now, I have learnt-
Who's to say that I will be the one to fall?
That I won't defy old Newton's laws
Cawing merriment as the cold horizon thaws
Past icy overtures. I may well soar-
Tripping not on shingle stone but
Meteoric flames, cavorting with the comet princes,
Surpassing all my limitations, taming black holes
And racing every ostentatious shooting star-
Pompous individuals... I used to envy them,
Glittering magnificence and doused in reverent splendour
But I can tell you that I have circled matter
They can never orbit, stranded in their brilliant vacuums and I-
I will not follow in their hot supernova, dying wake
I will be the unearthed eclipse,
Transcending humanity, science and space.