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Becoming Human

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I walked out that night.

Walked out at night right out the door,

right down those steps, straight steps bare chest

harem pants, camouflage pockets marched straight into those streets.

Something howled in me, felt like a gorilla roar,

and I stood up straight under a crescent moon and dashed across the street!

I dashed on pointed toes right past an oncoming car,

right across his view like some wild animal and was gone to the park before he realized what I was.

I strutted upright right into that park.

I yelled. And then I yelled again.

And each time that yell disappeared into a world way bigger than it.

And I realized then what I was.

I chassed into the center and leaped up!

arched my body forward and stuck my arms straight out past my bowed head,

and torqued my body all the way around.

I brought my fist to the ground!

I spun and jumped. Tonight under that crescent moon with no one watching I danced!

I realized what I was.

I lifted my head up, stuck my neck up straight raised myself onto the balls feet and stepped my right foot forward

and I stared wide eyed as a deer out across the park.

Attuned to every sound, to every possibility before me.

I walked that park, as a wolf walks the night pasture.

I didn't hunt, I just walked.

I walked with the confidence of an animal that knew exactly what it was and not a damn thing more.

I walked,

like a wisp, right across that dew covered grass and onto the basketball court.

I stared up at that net and flew at it, catching it and pulling myself up.

I stood on that hoop, chest out arms holding the top of the backboard.

I looked out at my world wide eyed as a deer from the top of that hoop.

Eyes wild with the warm breath of fear and burning like a wolf aroused.

I realized what I was.

I was a human. On top of the world. On top of the game.

I walked out that night

Walked out at night right out the door,

Walked straight chest out, back arched.

Felt like just what I was.

I walked out that night under a crescent moon, and something howled in me.

I was a human, and I will never be a person again.
MCA - Hibiya Amamiya *face palm* I couldn't sleep one night
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