{"sf1_id":1586410,"sf2_id":"Rm00XRvm","title":"Relearning","author":"Vell Skye","words":272,"posted_at":"2020-06-03T23:10:00.000Z","tags":["Free-Form","Happy","Poem","Sad","Wolf"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1586410-relearning","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/Rm00XRvm","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/65/6c/656caeb8-d9d2-404b-9994-16f05f136ab1","description":"Well, it's me again~! I had to get some stuff out, so here I am. Don't worry about the sudden pronoun shifts for the Great Wolf, that'll happen when you decide you're gender fluid~ As always, I'd love any feedback, my friends","content":"'Still the fear I\n\nCan't contain'\n\nThe Wolf blinked\n\nThemselves\n\nBack.\n\nAfter so long, she was\n\nBack.\n\nAfter so long, he could\n\nFeel again.\n\nIt was hard, coming\n\nBack,\n\nTo this.\n\nEverything pierced her\n\nEven more than before,\n\nGood or bad.\n\nThey raised their\n\nHead from their\n\nContemplation,\n\nWondering what was left.\n\nHe had come so\n\nClose\n\nTo Burning it all,\n\nLeaving\n\nNothing,\n\nWanting\n\nNothing.\n\nHer Closest had\n\nLeft,\n\nLeaving her alone\n\nWith the\n\nWhispers,\n\nhurtful little\n\nNothings.\n\nHe shakes his head,\n\nA small\n\nSmile\n\non his lips.\n\nEven still,\n\nThey couldn't blame\n\nThem.\n\nCircumstances\n\nCan spoil the best of\n\nUs,\n\nHe blinks in\n\nConfusion,\n\nSeeing them here,\n\nStill.\n\nThey hadn't really gone\n\nAnywhere.\n\nThey were closer,\n\nEven, than\n\nBefore.\n\nA Pony friend\n\nHad even come\n\nBack,\n\nIn spite of it\n\nAll.\n\nShe watches them\n\nBlinking back\n\nTears.\n\n\"Why?\n\nWhy are you all still\n\nHere?\"\n\nThey wonder\n\nAloud,\n\nKnowing that it did not\n\nMatter.\n\nHe lets the tears\n\nGo,\n\nKnowing that it did not\n\nMatter.\n\nHe had so many\n\nConfusing\n\nFeelings for,\n\nAnd about,\n\nAll of them.\n\nBut it did not\n\nMatter.\n\nIt would sort itself\n\nOut given\n\nTime.\n\nThe Laughing Dragon,\n\nSometimes too\n\nProud\n\nThe Honest Pony,\n\nSometimes too\n\nMysterious.\n\nThe Great Serpent,\n\nSometimes too hard on\n\nThemselves.\n\nShe would be here for\n\nThem,\n\nWith\n\nThem.\n\nBecause that is all that\n\nMatters.\n\nThe Great Wolf\n\nStands,\n\nAnd shakes themselves off\n\nAgain.\n\nThis was not the first\n\nTime,\n\nNor would it be the\n\nLast.\n\nBut it did not\n\nMatter.\n\nShe would stay and\n\nWalk,\n\nWith them.\n\nHe would stay with\n\nThem,\n\nNo matter what.\n\nBecause...\n\n'My heart still longs for a hope'\n\n  \n  \n\n"}