Untaken Advice -Joan Brady

“Get Out...” the others said...

“Get out while you still can...before their gates lock...

and they pull up the drawbridge...”

But already...I could see...their fire had encircled me...

And was...steadily...burning inward...

But that is what they did say...

And then I said, “but in the stories I was told...

there was love in it”...

And I did want to believe that...but then...

Everything they said would happen did happen...

And there was no visible way out left...but up...

So that is how I learned to fly...

And that is the good part....

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