bird in the wind

Believe you are stronger than the wind.
Take another breath
flap your wings a few times more
change your angle slightly, if you must,
but keep going.
Keep fighting.
Just when you think you have nothing left
the gust will subside,
and surge forward, you will.

Believe you are stronger than the wind
and keep fighting.

Strings in the sky

Haphazard strings
clumped together and strewn apart
dance across the setting sun,
with the wind
drawing closer and louder.

Coordinated strings
shaped to form a ‘V’,
multiple ‘V’s’ actually, size
and deepness ranging.

Fragmented strings
broken into beads along the thread
each a part of the whole,
beating wings
singing.

As the individual beads become clear
they blend,
mutating once more
into a cluster of thread,
dancing away
across the sky.