How To Say, You're Not Ready For The World?

How To Say, You're Not Ready For The World?

How to say, You’re not ready for the world?

How to say, Beware…/Don’t…/Remember to…?

I’m not sure about your future, son

After making war with the animals, the climate

Wears a hole in hope’s traditional gown

And deep hollows hang in the mirror

Of your Mother

How will you fly the world without my wings

Stretched over yours when you leap? 

Will yours unfurl?

“Look father!” you say, “Papa!”

In the distance:  A speck

Gasping, I see you soar, your shadow careens the city, the world

Your movements, the questions of sages

Our plasticized brains and seas! 

Nevertheless

You have unfurled