“Fly!” he said. “Don’t let me stop you!
Don’t let anyone stop you!
I’ll strive to keep the curmudgeons
From clipping your wings!
Fly!”
It took a night and morn before I realized
I have felt the icy chill
Of the clipping shears
On my pinion feathers.
And so I wonder: Where to go
To launch, to rise, to soar:
To fly?
All pastor should be trained as poets!