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Rated: ASR · Poetry · Death · #2353823

Found a dead Bird going to school today and I thought that, and realized it sounds poetic.

................................I found a dead bird...............................................................................................
...........................On my way to school this..........................................................................................
.......................Morning. It was face down on ......................................................................................
...................The driveway of someone I've yet.....................................................................................
...............To meet. The grief I felt seeing it there,.................................................................................
.........................Lifeless, was overwhelming. So I ...............................................................................
.........................Picked it up and it was so light. It was.........................................................................
......................Somehow still warm compared to the frigid....................................................................
...................Cold around me. It made me curious about how .................long it had been so lifeless.
................I Wondered what it may have done when I walked by, what it may have sounded like if....
..............I heard it when it was alive. I think it must have been out in the open last night, I heard ......
.............Rain then, and it was far too dry today to get it so wet. It was spotted with drops of .............
...........Water, damp, but only a little. Its fragile legs were curled up, and its wings were ...................
............Closed, soft and smooth. Its tiny eyes were closed too, as if it was sleeping. ........................
..............It was beautiful. I did not try to look for a tree, but I hope it passed while .............................
................Asleep, and that the dreams it had were as beautiful as it was now. ..................................
....................I wished I knew taxidermy, that I had the expertise needed ............................................
......................To preserve the life of this animal as peacefully as .......................................................
..............................It deserved, but I didn't. I gazed at it as I ...............................................................
....................................................Walked, holding ...............................................................................
........................................................It as gently ...................................................................................
......................................................... As a ........................................................................................
...........................................Wish flower, committing ..........................................................................
................................Each feather ............... and bone ......................................................................
To my mind,........................creating an obituary as .............................................................................
Fragile as the body......Before me. I found a large bush, ....................................................................
And I gave the..........bird a final goodbye, wishing it well ....................................................................
From here to..........wherever birds go. I felt a weight in my ...............................................................
Heart as I..............tossed it as carefully as possible into the ............................................................
Back of..................the foliage, and I forced myself to walk ................................................................
On. School...............awaited, and did.........not care about ................................................................
Dead birds. I sanitized my hand as I...............walked, because as loving as I was to the bird, love Doesn't take care of disease. I don't..................... know what happened to that bird, and I was taught to be careful of the dead. I ............................. washed my hands at school, an thought about How beautiful the bird was even .................................. after death. It makes me wonder what truly Makes something beautiful, if ............................................ something devoid of life can be so pretty.
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