Tuck your feet up,
feel the wind lift your wings —
you don’t want to be caught
in the stories beneath

Height brings perspective
and sights that unsettle —
ways you have been
that you wish that you hadn’t

Pump your wings hard,
hold your feet up from dragging —
no need to founder
in floods of regret

What matters now
is the course you are flying —
you will have time
to redeem yourself yet.

©Wendy Mulhern
August 6, 2018