Sometimes I think I could touch the sky

If I just jumped high enough

tried hard enough

Or wished loud enough

So I jump

I try

I wish

I do so until I've pushed past my limits

Until rebellious tears run down my face

Until it hurts so bad to try any longer

And I begin to break

Because the odd idea of touching the sky

Somehow transformed along the way

Into a dream, a need

something I had to achieve

And the irony of this fatal situation

Is that in my heart

As I tried

So hard that my molecules trembled

And began to disintegrate

Is that somewhere in my heart

I knew I would fail

For as I jumped and tried and wished

Still I would look down and see my feet

And they would be chained to the ground

An unbreakable bond

And from the start I knew

Even as my need for this began to flourish

That I would fail

I knew that I could not ever touch the sky