The Bird

Are you longing to feel free?

Are you ready to leave your comfort zone?

For me, when I wrote this poem over ten years ago, I wrote it for a friend that had left to pursue her dreams. Even though I was doing something similar (pursuing my dreams of a college education), I felt trapped.

I worked two jobs, lived pay check to pay check, juggled studies, lost my friends to college away from home, struggled to make new friends, and ultimately, but not surprising, found myself in an abusive relationship.

The Bird is about a relationship with freedom and responsibility. It is about hope, dreams, and action. And it is about stability and love. All of these are important as we make decisions.

Even though I am the tree, not the bird, I look back and think that I needed to be the tree and I don’t regret it.