No matter your imaginings and dreams,
gravity, a mere theory, not really proved,
preached by grown-ups, strikes you true-

You’ve never managed to fly away
or stop their pulling your feet back to
the ground, your head out of the clouds.
Your grown-ups haven’t stayed starry-eyed.

Danger, of course, you take as even less than theory-
Everyone you know has stayed alive,
at least a long time.

But I’ve the task of teaching you
to trust beyond your intuition-
outside of yourself-
and yet
that ground which seems so strong beneath you
someday may break,

for ground which seems so strong beneath you,
like you,
may break.