Your True Tales
August 2003 – Page 9

Heavenly Bird
by Sheetrain

I was lost one night. I was only 13 years old and had just come back home at 1:30 a.m. in the morning from being out trying to get myself killed. I had just seen my step-dad trying to kill my mom and then my mom and my sister and I ran away. My sister and I were sent to our other dad's house for safety until mom could get things back together for us. I was missing her and also very afraid that our step-dad would not give up on keeping us in his life. I figured the only way out would be if someone murdered me. I had gone to a place that the local kids had said was dangerous. I spent a terrifying couple hours there in the dark waiting to die, but nothing happened. I was very disappointed. My other dad barely even noticed me coming in for the night, but did ask if I wanted to watch a thriller about some man-eating plant. I told him no and went to bed. 

As soon as I laid down I prayed to God to help me and to let me go back home to mom. The next thing, the ceiling started opening up as if two big barn doors. I was amazed because I was awake. I could still hear the stupid movie going in the living room down the hall. I could see the dark starry night before me now and then it turned to daytime and I was suddenly on a dirt road. There was a bird in the sky coming toward me and then I was lying on the ground with the big beautiful bird on top of me. It had a long graceful neck and was of such wonderful soft colors of blue and white. I reached up to pet it and my fingers sank into its soft feathers. It was telling me that everything would be okay and that It loved me. It had to go but that it would return to me someday. The feeling of love was so overwhelming that I cried from happiness. I felt its body lift off of my chest and I watched it fly away. The phone was now ringing and I heard my dad call me. It was my mom. She said that she had made arrangements for me to come back home. I was so happy. I will never forget my bird and that night.

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