Exhilaration

I could feel my heart pounding. My chest rhythmically rising and falling. I began to pick up speed. My feet slammed against the hard ground. It was so dark no one would be able to see anything around them. But yet I could...I was running for the sheer joy and exhilaration of air pouring through my lungs...of feeling my heart pound...of pushing myself to a limit I thought even I could not exceed.... Just when it seemed as if I could take no more, my legs quaking under exhaustion, I surged forwards. Faster....faster the words echoed through my head. I was so close to attaining my goal...so close. If only I could gain a little more speed...Just then with the last surge of energy in my body I thrust myself upwards, arching my back, raising my arms far above my head. I felt my heels lift off the ground. And then with the last bit of force, I pushed up on the ball of my feet, sending me to new heights... My back continually swayed as the powerful structures attached to my shoulders swept gracefully through the air. I glanced down to see the forest slowly growing smaller beneath me. Hooked to my small frame was something beyond belief...Something so beautiful......Many thought I was a freak because I'm different. But I knew that I am beautiful. I believe they are a gift. Out of my peripheral vision I could see the deep mahogany feathers raising and lowering amid the clouds. People mock me because I am different....They refuse to accept me....They try to cage me, to conform me to there ways...However the only place where I am truly free, where no one can harm me or even dream to touch me...Is in the Sky.
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