One day I was a bird

One day  I was a bird

Who had no wings

Instead of running around like my

fellow wingless birds

I sat there and kept staring

at the sky

One day I was a bird

Who thought the stars are his long lost

family who found their hidden wings and fled

without looking back

'You forgot something on earth' I'd cry

Hoping someone would come back

One day I was a bird

Standing helpless

Feeling hopeless

Until I heard a whisper that shook my whole being

I looked up and there she was

The northern star

The brightest star

Who spoke through the sun and smiled in the moon

Her words a gust of life to my lifeless state.

They lifted me up, higher

and higher

I could almost touch the star

Reaching out,

wanting to hold her, to feel her

To be like her for just another day

Yet she stopped me and said

This was better for me

That I belonged on the wingless earth

While she belonged in the soaring skies

I shook with fear and held my stance

Asked her to keep me for one last dance

That sent the clouds and cut open the sky

That grew those trees and helped some birds fly

Looking at them, a tear rolled down my cheek

She just couldn't see what she means to me

We promised that forever is something our hearts are to keep

Abruptly I fell, a crack in my heart

forming with each mile 

Till it was sliced open once 

I landed on my earth

Its contents betraying me, abandoning me

And soaring till they reached their home

Now the whole sky is lit up

by my smithereens

Surrounding the only bliss I've ever known

Embracing the northern star

The brightest star.

Reviews

[Robert Gluzman]

Wonderful poem yet the ending confused me a bit.
One thing didn't make sense

"Yet she stopped me and said
This was better for me
That I belonged on the wingless earth"

Perhaps you can detail the reason why? Perhaps the idea can be fear that the "wingless bird" would burn (for example). This reason would be more interesting to explore, and create more feelings of breaking bonds or being dismissed. That would really get the readers into it.