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The Autumn Halcyon
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Overshadowed by those in flight,
is a halcyon that cannot fly.
Chop, chop, chop
did her perpetrators,
those golden wings, the wings
that defined the halcyon.
Not so fortunately,
they left her a soul,
a soul so bright-
caged for two long decades.
Live among the flock, live like the flock,
they preached.
All your fellow birds, you see,
are flightless.
Uniqueness is non-existent for birds of our flock!
they said.
Do not look towards the sky,
for that’s beyond your limits.
Little did they know,
she never belonged there.
Her innocence often urged to her,
“So what if unique isn’t present in my dictionary?
Extraordinary is!”
They laughed,
For they knew, she knew
that her wings were after all
in their custody;
that no matter how hard she tried,
she could never touch the azure,
could never be
what she was meant to be.
The terrible rage brewing in her soul,
her soul so bright,
smudged with charcoal.
The shine was gone,
she was now,
just an Autumn Halcyon.
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The Winter Halcyon
09:12
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In those nights of hopelessness,
The halcyon found an escape
in her only friend,
The Phoenix,
last of his kind.
Oh the Phoenix! He cleansed her soul,
washed off all the charcoal,
with his tears-those tears,
and their magical healing powers
enable the halcyon
to look to the infinite firmament above.
Little did she know,
her perpetrators had well been warned
Afraid they were,
that the phoenix would steal her wings
the wings-her key to freedom.
They resorted to brutality yet again;
they burnt the Phoenix to ashes.
Only if they had known,
that he would return back,
building himself,
from those neglected embers.
But the halcyon meanwhile,
she shattered in his absence.
The despair had returned,
and it withered her.
Oh you mighty sinners!
Why was I devoid of my wings,
but not my soul,
a soul so bright when I was born ?
wept the Winter Halcyon.
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