Cloud Mountain (prompt 18)

In the movie the girl stands

On a bridge over infinite clouds.

Below, a vast chasm.

The stones are cold

Under her hands, but there is sun

On her face and she closes her eyes.

A memory slides into focus.

Grandmother telling a story,

A story of a princess

Who sacrificed herself for love.

She leaped from the bridge of sighs

And turned into a snow white bird

Who lived forever flying among

The white clouds with her love.

The girl sighs.

She knows the only way to be

with her lover is to dive in.

Did he become a bird,

Waiting for her in the clouds below?

Without hesitation she climbs

Onto the stone wall and jumps.

Her arms go out, her legs spread out,

Her shirt fans out like white wings.

She falls into the waiting clouds,

A serene look on her face.

Gone forever.

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