WRITING OBSTACLE
Write from a dove’s point of view conveying how it feels about being a symbol of peace.
flew
their impurity dampens the luminescent feathers god sent me with.
the worms in the ground soak in the pollution that is man-
from even just their shoes on the ground.
i don't land to eat.
i can't shield myself from the disgrace for my mother nature-
it affects me, too.
it affects my mother and my sisters and little brothers.
my grandmother was flattened by a monstrous, quick moving machine.
what have they done to us?
god sent me with hope-
hope for peace.
god sent me with an ability to heal-
but one can not heal what wants not to be healed.
i haven't healed a thing.
even the plants have been washed in the boiling blood of man.
the green will die.
in fatigue i land, finally.
in regret, i see a moving machine, much faster than me.
should have kept flying.
but now i know.
god sent me with hope, with hope of his own;
he wanted not for us to settle in the mess of the floor,
but instead for us to persevere and find more.