Flying Free

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As far as the eye can see, an endless colony of golden swaying figures dance synchronised to the cool breeze. The trees in the hazy distance smile at me as reassurance that this was happiness.

Glancing at each side of me the succulent smell of bliss struck me and i fall too my knees. Helplessly i play with the roots of the plantation around me as the sun obscures my vision, this is one place in my vast mind that seems to repel all darkness.

The breeze picks up and it carrys me with it as though i was its puppet. My smile increasing i run towards an endless void of creativity, the small tingly feeling of the wheat crashing against my legs, i leap into the air holding my arms out as if their was something to catch me.

I fall unexpectedly and wince at the pain, my smile weakens, and reality strikes me as i hold my chest, the air of my lungs had been catapulted out of me and i start to drown. The trees frown and die, the wind also turns cold, all my dreams slip away from me, and the black clouds circle in all i can only stare.

Lightning strikes in the distance. I pick myself up ignoring the stinging grazes im carrying on my bony shins. I catch my breath and can't look back, i was being chased.Panicking I grasp infont of myself for balance as i sprint towards a slender looking tree.

i slump down next to the tree while looking at my arms, my eyes swel up and my tears trickle down into a crack down the tree that simulates a minature water slide.

The lightning mercy less came closer until we were face to face. I look across towards the once joyful wheat fields one last time as my vision turns into an all too familiar white of content...

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