{"line1":"Everything sped up.","line2":"I was on a highway, wind in my hair.","line3":"Then the wheel started to shake.","line4":"I was going too fast. I couldn't slow down.","line5":"A cold wind swept around me, but I couldn't put up the windows.","line6":"The car was driving me.","line7":"Its speed had taken me away.","line8":"We sped perilously downhill toward the Pacific.","line9":"I couldn't turn the wheel.","line10":"I was headed toward the cliff.","line11":"And there it happened.","line12":"As my car broke through the barrier, I could see it plummet — but I was no longer inside.","line13":"I was a seagull circling the cliffs.","line14":"I could see the car explode, orange flames far below, before the giant waves doused the fire.","line15":"Gliding in the air toward the horizon, into the sunset.","line16":"Everything that mattered from that life I still had — the love of family, my soul, peace.","line17":"For the first time, I sensed the wind rushing beneath my wing—","line18":"allowing me to soar.","seoTitle":"Flight — A Poem About Letting Go and Discovering Freedom","seoDescription":"A car speeds toward a cliff, but the driver becomes a seagull soaring into the sunset. A poem about loss, transformation, and true freedom.","keywords":"poem about freedom, letting go poetry, transformation poem, seagull poem, soaring poem"}