JESSICA DUBROFF to dream to follow your dream ah surely that's life to know what you want and rush everything in gaining a dream surely that's living and I wonder why people complained when a young girl flew in the skies young at seven years old Jessica Dubroff flew and touched that freedom only a few care to possess she tasted that total freedom of flying to fly and see the freedom that we all yearn for up among the clouds Jessica she wanted to fly fly til she died little did we know that her wish would be granted in such a tragic way as she crashed during a storm while trying to become the youngest pilot to fly across the country and a nation blamed her parents for pushing her to impossible tasks against her will but I saw Jessica's eyes as she talked of flying I wonder if the critics saw the way her eyes sparkled saw how they burned with her desire to soar higher than the eagles soar to be as one with Icarus without learning that sometimes dreams carry high prices but she knew the dangers she saw the storm and admitted that she might be afraid she knew that death might meet her but Jessica choosed to fly and not be chained to this world to soar with wings above the earth now Jessica soars with angel's wings and a nation wept while not fully understanding a young girl's passion as they never quite understand the painting of your life or the freedom that drove her Paul Vernon Deffendall April 29, 1996 PREVIOUS POEM NEXT POEM RETURN TO FADED GLORY