Music Is How We Humans Fly

Music is how we humans fly
We flutter and strum
And chords take flight
We swoop down low
Like a lonely crow
And soar with the eagle high

Our bones ain't got much hollow space
And as we age, the tallow and fat
Keep us a knowing where ever'thing's at
But our minds get the chance to get free
And when we hear the rhythms
And cadenced words
Of some other, fellow, cage-lessed birds
Our hearts fly
Cause we need to see

We want to cut that turtleneck off
The suit and the tie that's makin' us cough
We wanna get loose and into a rhythm our own
We wanna fly
Way up in the sky
Where the air ain't already blown

-jenn long