I am the Owl

I am the owl

High above the earth

I perch on dampened wood

Sturdy are the branches

That support my tired body

Yet with every breeze

They dance with staggering grace

To the music of frenzied leaves

Returned from flight

Haven tasted the clouds

I eye the world beneath me

Cautious wonder intrudes

Can a being of the sky

Ever exist below the trees

Littered with the resting fallen?

The hight of my life

Is my place of contentment

My legs can not carry me

Across the carpet of dirt

So scarcely before explored

Wings serve as transport

Flight delivers me

I soar on the winds

Confining to their will

Gravity combats my body

Feathers distorted and wild

With forces from below

The earth calls me down

Refusing I sore higher

Back to the dampened perch

I watch through the leaves

High above the earth