Beautiful Kite - Diane Scantlebury

We had a beautiful kite
That would frolic and gambol
In the sky
It had a magnificent tail
It took two of us
To fly
Its colours would shimmer
In the sun
With glints of gold
We had such fun
It would twist and shimmy
This way, then that
Then pounce and dive
With stealth of a cat
Until one day for no reason
You let the string go
Our lovely kite gone
To where?
I don’t know

Diane Scantlebury