The Raven in Flight

This verse was composed around this time a year ago, and it seemed fitting for it to be my first post on this site. Although it is a bit dated, I truly feel that the lyrics have not been proven to be true until recently. I feel liberated, free and in some aspects – unstoppable.

It is our fear and unfamiliarity of the unknown that hinders us from the very progress in which we, as people with ambition, aspire to make. For some of us, we never conquer this fear, so set in our own ways that we then become unable to see life past what we feel/know to be true in our own existences.

With me, my limitations have not only been set by myself, but others around me who have a general assumption of who and what I am supposed to be, based on my similarities with others that they may have encountered, heard or read about. In this verse, I write about my liberation from these limitations as I engage on the journey to become the person in life that I am truly destined to be.

 

I am the raven,

skin composed of the very bricks built in creation of the projects,

I am a product of my environment,

birthed from the ghetto,

raised and nurtured by experience,

bred by survival,

incarcerated within the prisons of my own mind,

policed by stereotypes of what I ought

to think, to feel, and to be,

nevermore,

nevermore will I remain caged by these limitations,

nevermore,

for I am free,

free to soar as the tip of my wings touch the sky’s clouds

free to witness the endeavors of this wondrous land,

free to become all that I so desire,

free to express myself in the realest forms that my mind can create,

no longer am I caged,

limited,

or confined,

for now,

after long last,

I,

the Raven,

can finally,

take flight.

 

~ by mrrealistic on 1 March, 2009.