Wings of Dawn ---- +Lady_Blaze+

Moonlight
splays across a floor, skipping raggedly from one object to another
lands on the still figure crouched in the corner
thin limbs drawn up, loosely clutching knobby knees with hands coated in paper thin skin
one sunken black eye nervously shifts, a clawed finger twitches
the freak, the outcast
shadow of the night
moving restlessly across the floor and waiting for the dawn
perhaps then it can find a cure for its curse

~ * ~

Wings so soft, they curve
around and shelter
shuddering, the thing blunders mindlessly
oh the cold, it is seeping through
feathers battered by the wind, encrusted with snow
struggling against the gale, its journey of no gain
perhaps, when the fray dies
and the brown infuses with green, it will find
the peace the real angels gloriously sing about

~ * ~

Oh, deformed one, your heart is true 'neath the gangly limbs
eyes forever deep and thin hands eager
plunged down by the self-serving, you can fly now
no more than a speck before, you are now a universe
spinning in the sky
above the heads of all, the chrysalis of your past shed
wings rustling, as white as light
soaring in the sky
A shooting star is reborn

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