High Flight
© Black Tangled Heart
Satine twirled across a
glimmering, silvery cloud, feeling her
The velvet sky was close enough to touch. Had she extended an alabaster hand
towards the dome, twinkling stars would have nestled in her palms, rather than
glistening tendrils of sunrise.
She watched as Christian let his beautiful song immerse her in a new found splendour, heightened by the haze of deep azure and soft
silver that smothered the sky with a radiant sheen.
"Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, and danced the skies on
laughter-silvered wings," Satine whispered as she felt herself being
lifted from the pewter cloud and into Christian's arms. Her auburn curls
caressed her cheeks as a smile lit up her face.
"Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth, of sun-split clouds
- and done a hundred things…" She sighed wistfully. If only she could stay
here in his arms until dew blanketed the courtyard and then sun showed its
golden visage.
"You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung, high in the
sunlit silence. Hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung my eager
craft through footless halls of air." She smiled, reminiscing the
times when she'd let her misery and pain flood into the inky sky. Now, she had
a new reason to raise her voice to the heavens: joy.
She turned to Christian, running gentle fingers across his cheek. Her heart
swelled at the sight of his nervous smile. He was so darling…
"Up, up the long delirious, burning blue," Christian whispered,
tenderly tousling one of Satine's crimson curls. "I've topped the
windswept heights with easy grace."
Satine nodded, delighted by his passionate words. "Where never lark, or
even eagle flew.
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod…"
They paused for a moment. Neither breathed. They only
stared into one another's eyes.
Blue against blue; hers filled with stardust and tears, his imbued with fervency
and trust.
"The high untresspassed sanctity of space,"
they whispered softly, in perfect unison. "Put out my hand, and touched
the face of God."
Sonnet Used: "High
Flight" John Gillespie Magee, Jr.