The Burden of Flight

I have been tricked;

They promised me freedom.

Yet the cost was not mentioned.

I have been cursed:

When I asked for liberty,

When I asked for flight,

I did not expect an answer.

Yet they did answer.

I was given wings

The ability to fly, exhilarating

The wind hits my wings,

The blue surrounds me,

Yet I have been tricked;

For the price of liberty was not mentioned.

When I was given flight,

They gave me a task

Told me that I must carry the sky.

At first I did not mind;

The wind made me forget

For there was no feeling that compared to that of flying; exhilarating.

Yet this trapped liberty was not my wish. 

I have been tricked; 

I am burdened with the weight of the sky.

The horizon, my priority;

Myself, forgotten

I ask them to take it back.

This was not what I asked for.

No longer am I free.

I wish to land.