Fairy Soul Poem by Leah Ayliffe

I am rising from the ashes that have been resting in dust far too long.
I remember how I used to float above it all, untouched by the heavy chains that too many carry.
Mid flight I was hit with a rock disguised as a rose and fell to the ground.
I learned to love the ground, the earth.
Wings not broken, yet their use forgotten.
I remember being crazy and dreaming 24 hours of the day.
Flying to new places was the only way to keep breathing.
Beautiful land, softest grass and kind tree branches that seduced and stole me from the sky,
I need to go back home in the air, it's the only way I can survive.
It doesn't mean I don't love you, or found a real way to live in your sphere.
It only means I lost my way trying to find the right path, when I knew the answer before.
There is no path to wander down or to discover, or to find.
There is no end destination or one way to be.
The sky is endless and roadless, no map to weave in and out of stars.
Maybe I needed to feel gravity to discover I could fall in love.
Maybe I needed to experience what it's like to be a majestic tree, something ageless in soul and rooted with history of all that has been before.
It's beautiful at times, but it is not me.
I will hover above you and smile like the blue skies and sunshine on a hot July day,
I will land softly on your branches to sing a blue birds song, to remind you that with a word I can take you far away from any sadness you may feel.
Instead of trying to exist barefoot on the dirt, maybe I could persuade you to fly.
I am the air that has no direction, and that is just how it is, though it scares most people down below.
I have a fairy soul, and hard as I try, I can't survive on the ground.
Maybe the rose could have been home.
It just turned out to be dandelion, trying to seem rooted but disappears when the wind calls, when the wind blows.
I've always found dandelions to be the dreamer of flowers anyway, a wish waiting to take flight.
Maybe we can exist together, I'll be the breeze, you ride it's weather.
There's only so many hours in a lifetime. Come spend them in the world of possibility, in a world where we are all free to be.
To be happy.