Traveling Towards Flight, I Hope

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Traveling Towards Flight, I Hope

By Jane Tawel

September 19, 2025

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I try not to ask myself too many questions.

After a while — and all this time —

It is exhausting to interrogate myself so much —

it only leads to judgment.

The comfort zone is best enjoyed

when only judging others.

I judge them with my anger

so that I may spend freely.

I judge them with my fears

to cover-up my fear of death.

But mostly to cover-over my fear of Life.

Or perhaps it is most often that I judge

to color-over my own lies —

to color outside my own lines.

I am good at coloring outside the lines

of topical belief-systems.

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To take the next step, it must be small.

And I must be small.

Like Alice, I must drink the draught

that comes only from a creative heart,