Dragon Kite

Dragon Kite

Mother, remember that dragon kite we had? / With tails all red and silver / and a face so fierce and wild / We’d run around in circles trying to make that dragon fly / and when we set it down the wind would pick it up and take it to the sky // Father, remember when we drove through that town? / With a cliff at every corner / we couldn’t find our way down / On the map every road seemed like it went on and on / but they were dead ends into nothing, so we turned right around // Brother, remember when you gave me that tree / I could not make it bear fruit so I just let it be / and after the spring rains were come and had gone / it was covered in flowers that smelled sweet in the sun // There’s no way of knowing where the wind will blow / You can’t tell it where to take you / or ask it to make you float / but a dandelion will sooner learn to fly before the stone / You gotta let go of the ground to find the place you need to grow