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On the Wings of a HummingbirdEntry #633501
I've been listening to this great song lately that I couldn't get out of my head. Something about the lyrics just really begged for a story to be written, you know? The song is called Hummingbirds by Venus Hum. The lyrics are like this:

Some of my favourite colours in the world
Beat against my eyelids with the blues of green hummingbirds
Some of my favourite colours in the world
Beat against my eyelids with the reds of pink hummingbirds
Blue Moon
So white
So scared
To come out tonight
It's too dark
For him
He's just a boy
With a man's grin
Crane and the swan-Wingspan across
Lake's silver light-The ivory night
Some of my favourite colours in the world
Beat against my eyelids with the blues of green hummingbirds
Some of my favourite colours in the world
Beat against my eyelids with the reds of pink hummingbirds
Godiva Girl
Swimming in chocolate
Winged foil heart cardinals
Oh but February stopped it
Red Bird
Scared white
She's just a girl
With a woman's smile

The song is so wistful and with such a sweet melody that I just feel swept away every time I hear it. It just so happened to be playing when I went upstairs to take my shower and I found myself deluged with a story idea so vivid I couldn't get out of the shower fast enough. I wrote down about 300 words before I ran out of steam and will have to go back and finish it. Isn't it amazing how a simple song can be an inspiration?

I'm titling the story On the Wings of a Hummingbird and hope to use hummingbirds to reflect the changes that come into Abigail, the main character's, life. I'm hoping the theme will be change and how nothing in life ever comes out the way we expect it or wish it, even when we feel we've achieved what we thought was everything we wanted. And how sometimes, that change is for the best.

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