Her wings felt papery in the wind,<\/p>\n
Her eyes dotted by black,<\/p>\n
She had never felt such a ravenous hunger,<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Any minute she would pass out,<\/p>\n
Her wings would stop,<\/p>\n
And slowly she would fall to the ground,<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The harsh winds threw themselves against her,<\/p>\n
And she struggled to stay aflight,<\/p>\n
As she navigated the dark forest,<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
But then, when it looked as if all hope was lost,<\/p>\n
She had come to a clearing,<\/p>\n
A place where the trees came to an end, and the darkness evaporates<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
In front of her, in the middle of the clearing,<\/p>\n
Was a house, surrounded by a white picket fence,<\/p>\n
And she smelt something sweet coming from behind that picket fence,<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Her stomach gasped at the smell,<\/p>\n
And she was drawn to it,<\/p>\n
She flew over the fence, and into the garden, in a daze,<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Then, she spotted a bench,<\/p>\n
And on it, slices of beautiful, orange fruit,<\/p>\n
She could almost taste it’s sweet flesh, and she had to have some,<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
She spotted a chunky slice near the edge of the bench,<\/p>\n
There were others there too,<\/p>\n
But she couldn’t care less,<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
She dive down to the slice,<\/p>\n
She placed her lips on it,<\/p>\n
And, savoury every drop, she drank,<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The juice filled her up,<\/p>\n
And quinched that hunger,<\/p>\n
After a while she stopped,<\/p>\n
For the first time in a long time, she was full<\/p>\n
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