No Way Back
I’m scared and want to go back, but the old cage is gone, forever! The world is vast and unpredictable, amidst the happy moments of everyday life, still full of misery, pain, and suffering. We’ve paved this destructive path for nature, and now it marches to the gallows. Commerce is its judge, and humanity is its executioner. I long so much to return to my cage, back to the fog, the security, and the shelter of ignorance. I can’t hide; what should I do now?
The last of six images in the story “All the Birds Have Flown Away.”