PLANES: Flights of Feeling
At the end of December (07), I was on a another transatlantic flight. I’d just visited a family member who was sick and ended up sitting next to someone who was returning from her mother’s funeral. Personal experience with funeral trips, as well as long-distance illness concerns, compelled me to pull out my notebook and record these poetic reflections.
Planes
Planes are for vacations
celebrations
They’re also for illnesses
and deaths
They carry passengers in all kinds of states
At all kinds of rates
No everyone’s planned to be there
Not everyone’s without a care
Life doesn’t just happen on the ground
Feelings gush all around
Tear stained faces
Of heavy sorrow reveal ample traces
Planes for pleasure
And planes for purpose
Planes for good memories
And planes for bad
Planes for happy
And planes for sad
Distance and time
Time and distance
From one reality to another
Time and distance
From one reality to another
Planes transport us
To places we want to know
And to places we’d wish never to go
Some journeys are not ours to decide
But, from them, impossible to hide
Some journeys may seem worse than they are
All that thinking while traveling far
Neither here no there
There nor here
Landscape changing
Mental rearranging
Flight out
Don’t know what to expect
Flight back
Time to reflect
Planes are for all kinds of reasons
Of life, reveal the many seasons.
