THE KITE


No cage must keep you,
no golden bars bar your flight.
Your ways are vaster that the sky.

No rules must bind you,
no blinds blind your sight.
Your truth will never lie;

You carry the sun in your heart!
Away, away proud kite,
free, free and more grand

that the sunniest, springiest day.
Here below I stand, gloved-fist tight,
happy, happy as you land,

as you curve in, swerve in, carve the air,
free as freedom,
fair kite, fair kite, fair.

© R.G. Bishop