"Ouroboros"
by Becky Hemsley
Her wings were spun from sunsets
And from fading autumn leaves
From sycamore seed skeletons
And dandelion seeds
With some scattered clouds sewn in
They were delicate and fragile
Barely there and paper thin
Her wings of nearly-nothing
Were at odds with all the rest
That were forged by flaming meteors
And blazed with fiery strength
But she didn’t need such power
Just a gentleness instead
For she sought the ones who fought
A raging battle in their heads
She found them in their darkness
In their all-consuming night
So she spread out her translucent wings
And let in pools of light
She saw them in their slumber
Whispering forgotten dreams
So she plucked a wish from in her wings
And threw it to the breeze
She recognised their winter
Frozen cold and bleak with snow
So she wrapped them in the embers
Of her incandescent glow
And the rest thought she was broken
With her wings so nearly dead
But if they had watched her closely
They’d have realised every thread
In her wings of seeds and sunsets
Simply echoed loud her cause -
To convince the lost and desperate
Everything can be reborn
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Becky Hemsley 2021
Gorgeous artwork by Kat Fedora Artist
‘Ouroboros’ is from Talking to the Wild
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