Learning To Let Go
A Random Word Drabble Challenge #144: baby
The matted-down fur is not yet dry, the color still slowly leaking out; still tainting.
I can feel the quickened pulse, racing to live just a little bit more. As if moving faster would actually make life all worth it. Did this baby bluebird have a life worth living? A life worth risking when it leapt into flight and crashed into death?
My heart lurches at its attempt to flutter, the desire for a last breath still in flight.
And when it stops, when the quivering stops, I think how precious time is. And how little we sometimes have.
A Drabble is a fiction story of exactly 100 words. No more, no less.
Sometimes I feel like life is just a Drabble.
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