Pretty Wings (Narrated)

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I laid treasures of the truth at your feet. Precious, perfect and dazzling. In return, you summoned an ocean from my eyes and stole life from my lungs.

A simple truth. We are all at the mercy of each other, I was at your mercy and you offered me none.

Pretty bird was what you called me, so a pretty bird was what I became. I always wondered why but now I realize, it was my wings you were after.

Did you dream about it? How you would snatch them from me. Did you feel exalted as you watched me fall to the depths of an ocean of my tears?

I cried out to life over and over asking. How?

How is this fair?

Just tell me how.

As I sank to the ocean floor, I saw all of the pretty little birds you’ve collected. Each one blackened and lifeless. Their faces were stained with sadness. Paused in a pain even time couldn’t heal. Beautiful corpses they were. Then, in the silence of my realization life answered and said

“I am not fair so why are you?”

Why?

Why am I?

Why?

Why am I?

I walked that ocean floor for days, lingering on life’s question. Feasting on every word. Swirling every syllable of that question, on my tongue. But something was...off about the taste.

Life, life wasn’t asking me a question. It was giving me permission, reminding me that there were never any rules. You know that all too well, don’t you my love? That the good are not rewarded for simply being good and the bad are not punished for simply being bad.

These things just are, just as they’ve always been.

And so, shall I be.

Free to be whatever I want. To take whatever I want.

“And what is it that you want, child?”

What do I want?!

I want my wings back.

And the heart of the one who took them.

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Hey pookies! This is a short and sweet treat that has sat in my drafts for a while now. Written after a lil heart breaky… but if i can be completely honest, i hate this lmao i don’t like it at all. BUT wabi sabi is embraced here and i still kinda ate lol So i release this to the ethers of the enterwebs because someone will find solace in this even if i hate it.

I kind of wanted to be a bit more unhinged with the voice choice but i didn’t want to scare y’all.

I haven’t written a lick of anything lately but i have been reading A LOT and as we all know reading and writing go hand and hand. This may be my last post of the year… (maybe) As always if you’ve read this far you a real one pookie. Muah!