Find your footing on the ground 

Solid, like you know who you are 

Watch it soar through the sky 

Like a broken piece of the sun 

Shooting up past the stars 

i sit by the river 

   and 

           wait

i stand by the ocean 

i dropped a plate once 

and i stood there 

looking at each crack 

and break 

like it would somehow change 

and i