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+%{
+  title: "Will I Feel the Wind",
+  id: "poem-will-i-feel-the-wind",
+  date: ~N[2021-05-05 13:00:00],
+  author: "Adam Piontek",
+  tags: ~w(poetry acoa aca spirituality)
+}
+---
+
+Long ago, as I suppose many teens do, I tried to wrote poetry now and then. And then I learned to hate my poetry, and I stopped. I wonder if I could just be kind to myself and enjoy trying?
+
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+#### Will I Feel the Wind
+
+I don't feel my wings.  
+Have I held them stiff so long they're numb?  
+Did they atrophy too far?  
+Did I amputate them and forget?  
+
+Slicing the skin and sinew,  
+rough implement cracking feathers?  
+Did I scrap their sick crumpled span  
+somewhere lost?  
+
+I used to dream of flight, soaring free.  
+Dips and curls and swoops,  
+graceful landings, inviting horizons.  
+
+But who would love my winged majesty?  
+They were more danger than delight.  
+More frightening than curiosity.  
+More risk than promise.  
+
+I've long since been unconfined,  
+but I'd already forgotten them.  
+The familiar posture stuck,  
+tucked in tight, cramped, tense, hidden.  
+
+Holding it that way is what's comfortable.  
+I can't stretch them wide just yet.  
+Muscles weak, tingling sharp as I try.  
+This burning ache, is it tender love?  
+
+Will I feel the wind?  
+Will it grace me with a lift?  
+Will it hold me like a friend?