I tried to call you in.
I tried to give you safe harbor,
for I could no longer watch you
beating your wings against the wind.
Your flight was erratic,
as if you had been wounded.
Try as I might to catch you,
you disappeared from sight.
The day was bright
and I know you’re
a creature of the dark.
How did you and your world
get so far apart?
I called out to you
in every language I knew
and it seemed
for a moment,
you tried to fly to me,
before the wind took you away.
I never saw you again,
but I think of you
and hope that you’re okay,
because sometimes,
I feel like you.
A bat,
flying against the wind,
in the day time.
HG – 2016
