Ascent

    Flying, flying, flying, rising from our dive!
    Feathers gleaming, we've never felt so alive!
    Our lives! Our lives!
    Mortality keen as knives!
    Escaping the chains of our dark defeat
    Our hearts pounding with every fleeting beat
    Laughing we soar, no longer a martyr,
    Leaving the grasp of our prison of water.

    Beyond we wake.
    Beyond they ache.
    The winds around us still as tears our eyes fill,
    But the vision remains oh so real.

    Flying, flying, flying, reversing our dive!
    Wings gleaming, feeling so very alive!
    Feathers shimmering, lovely, glowing as we fly!
    Basking, contented, in the cloak of the night!