Mother Nature Awakens
- Julia Irene
- May 7, 2021
- 2 min read
Updated: May 11, 2021
I've decided I'm going to start all my days writing something for a prompt on reddit. Afterall, warmups are good for any form of exercise! I took this prompt a different route. I'm sure the OP of this post meant for us to do something with aliens, but as you've probably noticed in some of my previous writing, I am a lover of the wind and the energy and power it has. The wind grounds me, can stop a panic attack even if I place a finger out of the car window, so when I read that humans linger around us, I began to think of the personality of the wind, the playful breezes and the strong gales that can break houses. It's as varies as humans, and technically the atmosphere is not the earth, which is why Mother Earth and Father Sky are separate in most pantheons.
[WP] The deity woke up from a 100-year snooze and stretched, looking around. In surprise, it found that there were no humans around. A passing animal told the deity, “There are no humans left on Earth.” It queried, “Then, why can I still feel them?” “There are no humans left ON EARTH.”
"They belong to the wind now, humans. You can feel them because they are everywhere around you, riding the wind, casting out tendrils of breeze swirling around you like a lady's skirt in a waltz, cresting storms and turning their hate and selfishness into mighty gales and tornadoes.
The bad humans, anyway.
The good humans carry seeds and pollen through the air, laying them lovingly down in the field to grow, grow, grow like the children who will never become corporeal because it takes a village to raise a child so why shouldn't it take the wind?
Humans have become the sky gods, and we the Earth gods. Us of fur and feather and scales and claws, we of pulsing wings and scuttling legs, brethren of nature. Humans lost their power over us and exist only in the atmosphere."
The squirrel cocked its head at the old tree, gnarled and twisted in the pain of long sleep.
"Their empire is done, razed to nothing but carbon-rich fertilizer and the air we breathe. Mother Nature, welcome home."
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
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