Disclaimer: I am using the story of Noah and the dove to express the emotions I am currently experiencing and what I am hoping for in my life. This poem is not being used to take away or add to the bible scriptures.

The First Hatchling (After the Flood)
(An original)

I, emerging

From the darkness

Of my shell

I take flight

Leaving my ark

In search

Of something I never knew

Water,

As far as a birds eye view

Water,

And dead bodies

Afloat on this liquid wasteland

Restless,

I remain up in the air

"Land here!"

My peers of a different womb coax

They land on the floating bodies

"A place to eat and a place to rest your feet!"

They declared

A raven's paradise!

But I declined

I cant explain

But it didnt mesh

It wasnt for me

I craved something

But what is it?

I never knew anything beside,

The Ark,

and this decayed water wasteland.

Lost

Wondering, that which satisfied my peers

why was it not for me?

They seemed happy

Why not me?

I flew away

Returning to the Ark

Feeling an aching hole

With a filler Ive never known

I spent a life time

With this ache

This craving

This unfulfillment

Back and forth

To the ark

To the wasteland

Back and forth

Back and forth

It was a lifetime

What was I seraching for?

What did my soul,

What did my heart of hearts know

That even I dont?

And then,

I found it!

Out there

Something new out on this water wasteland:

Land!

"A Place to rest my feet!"

Trees fulled with fruits!

"And a place to eat!"

I never knew this place

I spent a lifetime craving this

This, which I'd never known

A dove's true paradise!

~The First Hatchling (After the Flood): Dove's story