Shift
✍️: Ronald Alagos Shift Birds fly, at day and night— some of each, perhaps, One thing, they rest too, on the branches of trees in land, From flying, they shift to not, A beautiful thing, like that of day and night. Grace! They shift! Label them, and they won't be as deep, Limiting them is what you do, caged and in keep, Same applies to us, grouped and couldn't reach. Afraid, be not! A caterpillar grow wings too, Susceptibility in everything, growth and in cruel, Hush, like everything around, you're meant to expand and change, Growth will find you, multilayered— long ranged. Tick! A poet is not just a poet, But a person, too Same as to a stoic, Being false in its rigid truth. Again, shift is within me and you, It's okay not to be, the 'last' you.