Taking Flight

Those words take on new meaning

now, weighted as a metaphor for fear 

and escape when a people fearing the 

malevolent oppression of deist tyrants 

returning to the theocratic rule that

suppressed their humanity making of

life a vacant existence dedicated to the

concept of worshiping a jealously

demanding deity assigning the duty of

gaolkeeper to the fanatical butchers

of music, song and dance, courtesy

and love whose mendacious greed

and penchant for deadly punishment

has torn souls into shards of ice frozen

in fear. Those young men taking flight

from their tormentors, choosing to

surrender life as they clung pecariously

to departing planes only to plunge to

their untimely deaths, was it terror at

their bold adventure in flight they felt 

or perhaps exhilaration in escape?