Poetry Jam: Can't Hurt Us

 The Challenge at Poetry Jam this week was to write a poem based on music or a song. 

The main character, Cass, in my latest book, Without Wings, is a singer/songwriter. As I always do, I listened to a lot of music while writing the book. Can't Hurt Us isn't based on any one song in particular. It's more a song that Cass might have written.

Can’t Hurt Us

They told us we would burn

If we tried to touch the sun

That our waxen wings would melt

And we would fall

They told us that the road

Was bent by broken dreams

Roadblocks along the way

Made of crushed flying machines

And nothing comes of seeking

Except empty open hands

But baby

They don’t understand

There’s a light down on this highway

We ride with our arms open

There’s a thing alive with feathers

In our hearts

And I’ll hold you in the circle

of  promises unbroken

In the shelter of my arms

There is nothing that can’t be

Nothing that can hurt us

Anymore.

I'm currently searching for a publisher for Without Wings. And writing a few more songs for Cass to sing.

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