Finally Soar

by Amy Oestreicher

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Performed, Music & Lyrics by Amy Oestreicher
from the Multimedia Musical Passageways: Songs of Connection, Abnormal & Sublime

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In a wonderful sleep I had a dream of trees catching flight
Music growing with the grass and angels on a velvety patch of starlight
Dreamed of trees bursting with fancies and whims
Beggin’ the wind to free all the sorry spirits unraveling round their limbs
They couldn’t take shading the daffodils
Or catching rain over sloping hills anymore
They need to feel their roots laugh and sway behind
To brush against a God
And finally soar

With a whipping of wind, they thrash and beg the soil to acquiesce
Glancing back at empty graves, they rise like roving phantoms craving holiness
Ah
Saw their branches turning, turning to fair angel wings
Gliding through light that soaked their deserted forests who nurtured airborne kings

They bathed in splash of sky-paint, in pools of mist
Their roots danced in parades of bliss
Free and awed

And all the town opened their windows in awe
‘Cause no one ever saw a tree float to God

Fly trees
Fly with the planes and reindeer and gulls
Cloak our dying town in glory
Fly for us all

Oh trees
Hover above our store and our fuss
I know your skies are boundless
But will you bless us?
Watch over us?

In the deserted grove
A patch of grass emerged to pine for flight
Glancing back at empty graves they rise with angels
Dancing on mounds of starlight
Soon the world was soaring
From garden to stone
Harmony from their flight
Spread like watercolors and lured us out of our homes
We watched the world tremble with spells from the sky
And for the first time in our lives
We couldn’t ask why
We just were.

And maybe after years of grounded ease
All we’re meant to be is swept by a breeze

Oh our town is drenched in holy joy
That spills from trees who live anew
Someday I’ll fly
Too.

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released August 23, 2019
Performed, Music & Lyrics by Amy Oestreicher
from the Multimedia Musical Passageways: Songs of Connection, Abnormal & Sublime

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Amy Oestreicher New York, New York

Amy Oestreicher is an Audie-Award nominated playwright, multimedia artist, Huffington Post columnist, TEDx & RAINN speaker, PTSD Specialist, actress, songwriter, and author of "My Beautiful Detour: An Unthinkable Journey from Gutless to Grateful." Original musicals include Passageways, Leftovers, and Gutless & Grateful, winning seven national awards since its 2012 BroadwayWorld nominated debut. ... more