This Gift, This Curse | Teen Ink

This Gift, This Curse

October 21, 2011
By gossimergrrl BRONZE, Grosse Ile, Michigan
gossimergrrl BRONZE, Grosse Ile, Michigan
3 articles 1 photo 24 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Hamlet: Oh God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams." -William Shakespeare


How can something
So wrong
Feel so right?
How come our world
Is never black and white?
Always running
But from whom we don’t really know
Always hiding
Our faces never shown

But I still have
The wind in my hair
The air’s still crisp and cold
Way up there
The breeze lifting my wings
The tune my heart sings
But my feathers were a gift
From the spirits that haunt me

Is it possible
That something
So unnatural
Can be so beautiful?
My first love
Was the sky up above
And when things get rough

I still have
The wind in my hair
The air’s still crisp and cold
Way up there
The breeze lifting my wings
The tune my heart sings
But my feathers were a gift
From the spirits that haunt me


The author's comments:
Inspired by Maximum Ride by James Patterson.

Similar Articles

JOIN THE DISCUSSION

This article has 2 comments.


on Jan. 29 2012 at 4:14 pm
gossimergrrl BRONZE, Grosse Ile, Michigan
3 articles 1 photo 24 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Hamlet: Oh God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams." -William Shakespeare

I love them! Can't wait for the last! Thanks for commenting!

on Jan. 29 2012 at 4:11 pm
EPluribusUnum DIAMOND, Woodbine, Maryland
59 articles 24 photos 280 comments

Favorite Quote:
"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head)."
-Sylvia Plath

The imagery in this is beautiful! It made me want to fly!!! Well, I always want to fly. But now I want to fly that much more! Aren't the Maximum Ride books great?