There was no one to catch me as I fell,

Only mocking eyes I could tell,

What I deserved I finally got

They said, as I lay broken distraught,

Fell a second time, and third

–“Wings do not make one a bird

Away you fool, away! It’s time

Don’t you know mistake’s a fatal crime?

With broken wings you are cursed to lie

Regretting your sins until you die.”

Afar I heard a heavy knell,

Time has come sang the distant bell,

And I say – I know I am incapable but let me try

Perhaps in another life I’ll learn to fly.