# Fall Through The Earth

Author: Apolarbear17
Tags: Burn, Flying Back, Vent Poetry, Wing Creature, fall, hurt

A bit of a more abstract vent poem about something with wings falling through the somewhat hollow ground. That's all I'll say about it. Originally posted in May 2021.

Fall Through the Earth

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;By: A.X. Bueno

  

Something not exactly human anymore plummets towards the ground&nbsp;

With wings that became sickly and now fail&nbsp;

It's eyes closed and face placid it ran out of screams and tears somewhere on the way down&nbsp;

The unconscious body of it falls preceded by those sickly wings of radioactive green and inky black&nbsp;

Those wings are the first parts of the creature to break through the earth&nbsp;

For the ground it hit was cracked and semi-hollow

It's fur becomes covered in dirt on it's descent downward&nbsp;

The rest of it to follow&nbsp;

It spirals still unconscious for a bit until it bruises a finger&nbsp;

On a small rock that's stuck in the dirt and gives a jolt of pain to that finger&nbsp;

Between that and the lingering pain of hitting the broken concrete ground earlier it snaps awake&nbsp;

It tries to scream at first but that's met with a muzzle full of dirt it has to spit out&nbsp;

It continues it's spiral downward seemingly only getting faster&nbsp;

It struggles to get its wing to work and slow it down

The creature trying to avoid further disaster while it's heart jackhammers in it's chest&nbsp;

It's breathing quickens as it tries on somewhat broken wings to feebly try to catch itself&nbsp;

As it does that it suddenly feels it's belly burn on superheated earth

This causes it to yowl for a moment in pain as the burn peels a bit of flesh and fur&nbsp;

After a while of hard struggle the sickly winged creature finally stops its fall through the ground&nbsp;

But not before scratching a leg to add to the pain of it's plummet down&nbsp;

Still it stop it's descent through earth and decides to take a second and examine around&nbsp;

The wounded winged creature notices other holes likely from other unlucky creatures that also fell&nbsp;

Some above, some below and some surrounding it as well in this somewhat hollow ground

It sees the indents in the dirt of those who caught themselves faster than it&nbsp;

As well as the ones of those who still had further to fall&nbsp;

It doesn't know whether to feel sad, angry or grateful and wastes no time to figure that out&nbsp;

It decides to head homeward and upward

Out of the soil that has consumed it and put away(at least for now) any fear or self-doubt&nbsp;

It fell very far down and broke a lot of ground on the way&nbsp;

But now it's on its way home and hopefully it can make it there on it's own&nbsp;

It's gonna be a while till it can fly itself out but it'll be worth it to see the sky again&nbsp;

See the sky while standing healed and tall on top of steady ground   
  

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Source: https://sofurry.com/s/V1Yq2xx1