By Mel Carney
Our young people ask if their lives can touch the sky
I ask them to consider the butterfly
They start their lives with a strange and unusual shape
Then they surpass their beginning with a risk that they take
Their metamorphous comes with disbelief, as they lower themselves from a high and lofty leaf
There, held on a fine and silvery wire they look within themselves and in time come out a flyer
Their inward look brings
A wondrous beauty and a magnificent pair of wings
Those wings lift them high above the land
In a rebirth that is part of their life’s grand plan
On wings colored with imagination
They fly towards their destination
Each day they go out and touch the sky
On those bold and beautiful wings, they fly
This thought should not be lost on you and me.
Each of us has something inside that wants to be free.
Our Wings of Imagination are there to help us fly
And lift us up to touch our sky
There are times when our heart does ache
When goals seem impossible to make.
Time and time again we see someone’s life takes shape
When they loosen their mental bonds and let themselves escape
We need to take time to look inside of ourselves
To find a way to reach those goals
That we have set so high
Then brush them with our own set of beautiful wings –
As we fly by……
