I wish we could
have come and gone
without the kite strings
higher with the wind

and higher until there
wasn’t any turning back
and we were closer to

another planet than we
were to the earth that
we left from and so

began a weird alien life
where, as we got farther
away from ten fingers
and oxygen, we got closer
to another life we didn’t

recognize, but this was
the risk we ran when
we cut our kite strings
and we knew that before

so we swallowed our
situation and put on
alien suits to play along.