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.