Sky - Piece by Lucie Hafteck

The hum of an airplane engine starts,

Deep-

Almost a vibration of sorts, within me

Singing slowly to announce

The start of a journey.

The humming slowly gets louder,

Now roaring

As I feel myself lifted up,

Ascending into the wisps of white streaking across

Vastness-

The immense stretch of light blue

The friendly blue that will soon blossom into a multitude of 

Purples, pinks, and oranges

As the glowing orb of yellow benignantly wavers a last goodbye, 

Leisurely receding past the horizon.

Then it all turns black-

A familiar darkness snakes itself around tail,

Then drips down the milky white wings 

It splatters and spills down the body

Until the entire aircraft 

Is snugly enveloped in inky blackness

Here,

I am.

I simply exist, for

There are no labels to the sky

There are no boundaries or borders-

I go as I please in the stillness of the atmosphere

The borders stay down there, 

Under me,

And I am above them.

I am above the definitions and restraints,

Limitless-

And free.