Traction

An iron cape on my shoulders

The weight of the world

Makes me

Heavy

I

No longer levitate

Zip through clouds

Walk through walls

Inhale the vast

Possibilities

Brick and sand in

My shoes pull

Me down

To the solid

Earth beneath

My feet

Touch down

I take

My first

Steps.

-Nerina Sivonjic

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