Why doesn't a soul fly when it hears the call?

Why doesn't a soul fly when it hears the call? Fish on the beach always move towards wave-sound.-Rumi

You have escaped the cage.
Your wings are stretched out. Now FLY.
You have slept in sheds and outbuildings so long you think you live there.-Rumi

Don't you know yet?
Fling the emptiness out of your arms into the spaces we breathe-
maybe that the birds will feel the extended air in more intimate flight.-Rilke

Íss-Ice

Íss-Ice
Freeze
Thaw
Contract
Expand

"Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you’d be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as bird wings." -Rumi

 

Íss er árbörkr
ok unnar þak
ok feigra manna fár.
glacies jöfurr.

Ice is bark of rivers
and roof of the wave
and destruction of the doomed.