She stood staring at the sky and with one deep breath the arctic air slashed the back of her windpipe.
She had almost to close her eyes to see their forms in the upper field as the sun seared the earth.
The wild geese had been there for days, nestled in the higher ground, feeding from the tilled soil and waiting – just waiting.
Every year they came and every year their presence caused a stirring in her heart. She felt right again. She felt needed.
She
painted pictures of them as they fed in the field, she sketched their
flight and sometimes she just smiled. She listened to their cries and
more than once she was sure they called her name.
The
geese swept in formation over her house and bestowed upon her a victory
wave as she lay in bed, grasping her bed cover whilst looking from her
window.
On
the morning that she never woke again, the geese prepared themselves to
take to the skies; to head home and to carry another soul to that
resting place in the far, far north.
They had got what they had come for.
Happy Birthday Sheila x
bobby stevenson 2012
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