The due day has come and gone...

First I would like to congratulate all the winners of the Birdport prize.
Neither my short nor my flash story made it to the shortlist :-( .
When the silence spreed beyond the due date I knew the prize wouldn't be mine, but I didn't really expect to win. Being in the shortlist however would have been already great. Better days will come. Life is not supposed to be easy.

the nothing in all

Once upon a time,

when the wilderness was tamed by humankind

and the world was a very, very big place...

There was a girl,

who knew not what to do, not for the lack of skill

she was blessed with plenty of it...

Unsettled at heart,

she tried different things, while school gave her

one straight way and one end...

As she finished,

she had drawn fair paintings, danced all sorts,

even written a few verses...

But undecided,

she pursued the stable way, providing her

the hobbies of all else...

She was smart,

she felt no end to her way, she found no dream

until she met her limit....

Because her mind wondered, she never reached

and now she found the total hopeless emptiness...  of lacking.

Who would live evermore?

I dost fear death not, I mock ye neither,
rather dread the waist in unfulfilling.
Single breath forces ease departure,
yet, forgetting the hearts left beating...

Were I to gather the winds grace,
granting them a brace'd be too eager,
I hope only to leave bliss in few,
yet ambition weights in my measure.

Thus of me the prime ye conjure,
forgive my human in nature,
take on the loud laugh and light dance.

Bring it to thy weddings and funerals,
to thy sons sons births, baptisms and sermons,
bring me memory of deep warmth for thee.