Wonder of wonders, I won another badge!
Special thanks to
#MenageMonday host @CaraMichaels
and to
Week 33 Judge @PhoenixLavan
The Photo: Honoring the annular eclipse I
totally missed. Photo courtesy of ABC News.
The Phrase: “[didn't/don't/doesn't]
want this”
(you can choose one of the three options and this can appear
anywhere in the story)
The Judge’s Prompt: The Phoenix – the bird, the legend, as a symbol, a statue, as an idea, as a
concept, or even abstractly as a suggestion or condition.
Here is
my Entry:
Though undeniably wrought by my own fiery temper, mental afflictions
of my own design, I didn’t want this. I didn’t want anything that even
resembled this. I wanted to be a blue angel pilot. I wanted to land jets on an
aircraft carrier. And that, just for starters. I wanted to become a lunar
astronaut – “One giant leap for mankind”, and all that.
Not by the most incredible misfortune, to be one sitting
stupid on some dusty prison exercise yard. This is not my idea of standing out
– to be one of only three persons even cognizant of a beautiful eclipse
occurring overhead. All there ever was of me was bound up in the idea that I
would be significant. I must matter to someone other than myself. My descent
has been into the ranks of the aimless.
I wonder how soon
into its half- millennium does a phoenix began contemplating rebirth. I am so recently into
this life sentence. But, I fear for my sanity if I do not look forward to my
release. Though incarcerated from without, I’m fully aware of a fire shut-up
within. I have to believe that I will one day fly from this place.
@Computilizer
200 Words
