Flight !

Flight - Adapted from Magee. By Ryu Darragh

Oh, I have slipped the surly
bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on
laughter-silvered wings:
Sunward I’ve climbed, and
joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds -- and done a
hundred things
You have not dreamed of --
wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence:
hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind
along, and flung
My eager length through footless
halls of air.
Up, the long, delirious,
burning blue
I’ve topped the windswept
heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle
flew --
And, while the silent lifting
mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity
of space,
Put out my hand and touched
the face of God.