On Better Terms - Pilot's Soliloquy

from My Apologies/On Better Terms Split by My Apologies/On Better Terms

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Lights begin to flicker
Signal: engine failure
Recall training, instincts engaging
Seconds to live, where your life turn

Mind swings to her, your favorite picture
Count the times she made you smile

Flash inspiration
Internal persuasion
Anything to survive, for them to see you alive

Mind swings to her, your favorite baby picture
Count the times you made her smile

Refocus, and take control
You got your reasons to accomplish the task ahead
You did your homework, so that you would always come home
Like you promised at every departure
A promise made with trusting eyes
Now remember your ABCs of emergency landing

A - Airspeed
Maintain to release control pressure and maximize range; bide time

B - Best place to land
Scan for fields in the congested forrest, small clearing spotted in the distance

C - Checklist
Fuel selector, primer and pump. Master switch, flaps, seat belt and door

Descending, quickly revealing a farm and it's family, just another reminder

Altitude dropping, hands steady but sweating
Opening grows larger, but not as large as you hoped
Pass the last tree, lean forward then level out
Coming in too fast, hit landing gear switch

Hold on, irrigation trench
Nose hits, mind to them
Lights out

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from My Apologies/On Better Terms Split, released March 2, 2018

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