17/09/2021
The Morning After
The sun rose early that morning or at least to him it seemed, leaving him wondering if he was awake or still somewhere in his dreams.
There was an unfamiliar silence of not even one sound, although the home in which he resides lies in the center of his town.
Not a squirrel, not one bird, no car horns or the bus, no lawn mowers, edgers or blowers and no air brakes on dump trucks.
No voices of kids talking loud and yelling out, as they stand waiting on the corner at the high school bus stop.
No rumble in the sky from airplanes passing overhead, and the eeriness of this silence sits him up in his bed.
He swung his legs to the left as each morning he had done before, and noticed a feeling of weightlessness as his feet both touched the floor.
He stood up on his feet and he felt lighter than air, stretched his arms and turned around and saw himself still lying there..
-A Lion Unleashed
