"Learning to Fly"

Into the distance, a ribbon of black
 Stretched to the point of no turning back
 A flight of fancy on a windswept field
 Standing alone my senses reeled
 A fatal attraction is holding me fast,
 How can I escape this irresistible grasp?
 
 Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
 Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
 
 Ice is forming on the tips of my wings
 Unheeded warnings, I thought, I thought of everything
 No navigator to find my way home
 Unladened, empty and turned to stone
 A soul in tension -- that's learning to fly
 Condition grounded but determined to try
 
 Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
 Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I
 
 Above the planet on a wing and a prayer,
 My grubby halo, a vapour trail in the empty air,
 Across the clouds I see my shadow fly
 Out of the corner of my watering eye
 A dream unthreatened by the morning light
 Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night
 
 There's no sensation to compare with this
 Suspended animation, a state of bliss
 
 Can't keep my mind from the circling skies
 Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I