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I am a Queens native. I am a mother of three. I am a proud, hardworking wife. I am a full time claims examiner assistant. I am a Christian. I am exhausted! Writing is my favorite vacation spot. It is my home away from home. It is melody, warm tones, and modulation in a world of cacophony. It needs no license, it offers no excuses or apologies. It is its own muse.
As Far As I Can Throw You
Dec 31, 2017 6 years agoHe threw her.\u00A0 Just threw her with full force like you chuck a football through a field. He threw her. She flew through the air.\n\nI always knew I could fly, she said.\n\nFor the first time there was someone he could trust with his life and he wanted to show her that he cared.\u00A0 He wanted to show her that she was special.\u00A0 He wanted to show her that he'd be \\"mush\\" without her.\n\nI trust you about as far as I can throw you, he said.\n\nThen he threw her.\u00A0 He hurled her body and watched it spiral through the air. His love poured out of the sweat that beaded on her forehead.\u00A0\u00A0His faith sprouted wings in her back.\u00A0\u00A0His hope stripped her naked and replaced her bland clothing with an aerodynamic super suit colorful enough to match her vibrant personality.\n\nAt first, she was afraid. Fretfully, she gathered herself and tried to get her bearings.\u00A0 She tried to get used to being in the company of birds, high branches, and jet planes approaching their landings. She screamed in excitement.\u00A0 No one seemed alarmed that she was up there.\u00A0 They expected her to be in the sky.\u00A0 It was as\u00A0if she didn't belong on the ground and everyone knew it.\n\nHe didn't look at her though. Once he threw her he didn't wonder if she could take flight.\u00A0 He BELIEVED she could. So he obliviously kicked a ball through a field and watched it roll on. He read an article from time to time. He viewed television shows at leisure. He felt the warmth of an onlookers admiring glance. He chugged along knowing she was soaring through the sky for the first time.\n\nIsn't he wondering if I am okay?\u00A0 How does he know a larger creature hasn't consumed me?\u00A0 Hasn't he thought about my loneliness? Sometimes it's cold up here.\u00A0 I don't know anyone up here.\u00A0 Sometimes I'm scared.\u00A0 I've never flown before.\u00A0 I've never been thrown before.\u00A0 At first it was fun but where is he?\u00A0 What is he doing?\n\nHer fear ignited a fire so fierce it singed her beautiful wings.\u00A0It incinerated her custom costume.\u00A0 It sent her flailing through the sky clumsily...falling.\n\nShe landed in a bed of roses.\u00A0 The thorns, long and sharp, pierced her skin and\u00A0her blood mixed with the crimson red of the rose petals.\u00A0\u00A0Her body naked and covered in ashes and blood writhed in pain.\n\nShe screamed out in horror, \\"My love! Where are you?\u00A0 Why didn't you fly with me?\u00A0 Why did you leave me all alone?\\"\n\nSilence.\u00A0 She waited in the cold.\u00A0 Naked. Vulnerable.\n\nAll the while,\u00A0he returned to the field of her original launch\u00A0every day after breakfast.\u00A0 He wondered why she never returned. He assumed she must be enjoying the clean air, the ascension.\n\nWhy didn't she ever try to throw me?\n\nHe felt her absence but he also felt her presence.\n\n-By: Shaun Liriano\n\n*Dedicated to my muse.\n\nMy life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.\n\n~Bret Michaels\n\n
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