Fear of Flying

sentences condensed    
distilled    
and rearranged    
throwing out what doesn't fit    
building something new    
loving words that feel true    
finding poetry in life    
and life within rhyme    
writing to live    
and living to write    
a symbiosis    
our blood as ink    
the quill our bones    
written on the canvass of the soul    
finding immortality    
in poetry's eternal dance    
our words composed    
one part inspiration    
and two parts damnation    
poetry    
is the door    
enter at your peril    
hoping to touch the stars    
but afraid we don't know how to fly    
gambling all to win the sky    
finding wings and imagination    
on the first day    
that    
we    
soar