[warning: abuse of humans and other animals] feral hearts

[avia]

Oh, oh, oh. This. This.

Our feral heart that wants to run. Our quiet heart that wants to go home. The way we are on a constant search for wings.

What are we? I can’t answer that question for everyone, but I, I reject human form, the same way that maybe the dog rejects the way it has been shaped by vain, proud hands, rejects being squashed into a small body with a stump nose and legs that hardly run, remembers the wolf.

Perhaps, there is a secret society of species dysmorphics through the world, wolves trapped in handbag-size bodies, tigers designed by human hands for beauty and not for breathing.

Perhaps, humanity is just the first victim of a curse, a curse that washed over the land and said, we will take birds and give them not-flight, we will take coyotes and give them not-running, we will squash them into strange naked shapes. And, in anger, they will turn on the rest of the world and make it as not-wild and not-free as they are, turning wolves into handbag dogs, clipping the wings of birds and shutting them in cages.

We have been abused, we have been broken, and so, we repeat that abuse on the helpless things around us.

But I say, no more. I will not continue the abuse done to me. I will let the birds fly, even if it makes my heart ache to watch them go where I can not.

Comments

[tragedy_virus]

Ahhh, that quote gave me shivers. :)
As always, loving your writing. It made my day a little more special just in the reading of it, like it touched on something I'd been missing but really needed to hear. (I'm not sure if that made sense, but that's the best I can describe it~)

[avia]

It gave me shivers, too. ^v^

And, oh, I'm glad. No, I know exactly what you mean, and I'm really really glad I can bring a little more magic to your day!

[feathertail]

I feel that humans are basically the Singularity. >.>b

If you haven't heard of that, the idea is that someday a computer will be invented that will be able to improve itself faster than humans could. Then the computers will inevitably outpace everything else and take over, a la the Animatrix. It's a uniquely human story, because it contains a dim kind of self-awareness as to what they themselves are, as well as their paranoid fear that they'll find someone else who's better at it than they are.

The explanation for otherkin that makes the most sense to me personally is that we had to inhabit human bodies, because there was no place else to go.

[avia]

It's a uniquely human story, because it contains a dim kind of self-awareness as to what they themselves are, as well as their paranoid fear that they'll find someone else who's better at it than they are.

I'm going to quote that every time someone talks about the fear that "robots will take over".

If they can take care of the planet better than humans, I don't think that I mind....