If My Heart Had Wings

If my heart had wings it would fly.

It would leave this place tonight.

Through these fences it would break.

A path straight to you it would make.

Flying over all the many miles,

to be in the presence of your smile.

If my heart had wings it would fly.

In search of you with no question why.

These bars were never built to hold,

my enduring love for you untold.

To soar like an eagle where ever you are.

My heart would fly no matter how far.

If my heart had wings it would fly,

and never again would it say good-bye.

It would leave this place to be with you,

to ease the daily pain it has gone through.

But wings my heart has not,

and so it remains in this sorrowful spot.

Written by George Lynch

While at Mayo Correctional Institution

Dedicated to H.S.