I will encourage you…
For as much as I love and adore you and my heart is pained,
the time is here for you to soar free, to fly far away from me.
I will hold my breath…
As you spread wide your wings to soar in cloudless heavens
over emerald valleys, deserts dry and the distant dark sea.
I will delight for you…
as you experience life in feathered flight without me by your side,
and see every corner of the wide world in solitary light.
I will thank God...
if it is our destiny for you to return, to love and soar alongside me,
and mutually lift our wings to ascend in harmonized flight.