This song was written for the

#AutismAwarenessMonth project!

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Some days I wake up tired

Like I’ve already run a race

Before the world even says hello

I’m already out of place

They say I seem so normal

But it’s work just to pretend

I keep a smile for strangers

And break alone again

If I had wings, I’d fly away

Somewhere the noise can’t reach the day

Where I don’t have to hide what I feel inside

Where I can just exist and stay

If I had wings… I’d fly away.

I count the lights on ceilings

I echo words like prayers

I wish I didn’t flinch so much

From the way the world just stares

It’s not that I don’t love you

I just don’t know how to show

The love that lives so loud in me

In a way you’d ever know

If I had wings, I’d fly away

To where the silence feels okay

Where stimming isn’t strange, and time can rearrange

Into soft and gentle gray

If I had wings… I’d fly away.

I’m not broken—I’m just wired

In a way the world forgets to see

But I still feel it all so deeply

Even if it doesn’t show in me

If I had wings, I’d fly but not to flee—

I’d find a sky that lets me be.

Where I don’t have to choose between quiet and true,

Where someone might just understand me.

If I had wings… I’d still be me.

“I just want to be — me …!”