Stay Calm…You’re Only Burning – Poetry Prompt #12

My but how it all changes in an instant.

Onward and upward, I cry!

My wingbeats are frantic as I know I’m running out of time.

Even as I pull ahead of the oncoming borde, their fire projectiles strike.

Never will I forget the smell of burnt feathers and the pain in non-existant limbs.

The sweat had plastered my hair to my face as I thump painfully onto the floor.

I don’t know why they thought I was a demon…

“What if we had ideas that could think for themselves? What if one day our dreams no longer needed us? When these things occur and are held to be true, the time will be upon us. The Time of Angels.”

-from Doctor Who

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Written based off of a snippet of an old dream I had often back in middle and high school. Sometimes I can still feel the pain of arrows piercing limbs that I don’t even have…

Also written for this week’s WeDrink Poetry Prompt: http://wedrinkbecausewerepoets.com/2014/06/02/poetry-prompt-12-moments/

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