Won in the writing contest hosted by an user from wajas.com
Won 23.05.2018

Birthday wish

I saw the stars falling down to Lunaria. She was there. And I saw her.

Years passed over me and it was once again my birthday. My eyes closed out in sadness and sorrow, hating with all my being that day. Every fiber of me despised that cursed day, the day I came on this useless world, and the day she meet her cruel fate. The very day I was born, she died, right as she brought me to life. Her last breath, was my first breath.

My father never wanted to see me. The elders of the cave said he was from a different part of Lunaria, others said he never wanted to see me since my mother died because I was born. But I will never forget what the oldest Divine from the cave told me. „She gave her life so you could live. She loved you more than her own life. Cherish the gift she left you.”

But no matter what everybody said, I was still sad when my birthday came. I just could not enjoy this day. All the cave members celebrated that day, all happy and having fun. I tried my best to look happy even tho I felt my soul crushing under the past. The night slowly covered Lunaria and stars begun to populate the sky. The elder divine approached me.

„Come with me, I have something to show you.” And I did follow him. He brought me to a nearby forest, not very far away from the Pear Tree. I looked above me and the starry sky, unsure why I was right there.

The elder had a small sphere in his paw, a sphere that reflected the light from the stars. I looked with interest at the elder as he was smiling to me. I heard so many legends about the powers of the divine wajas, but I never witnessed their powers. He gently broke the sphere, dust covering its paw. He scattered the dust in the night wind and I watched as the dust seemed to climb up to the stars.

Only a few moments passed and I begun to see stars falling down to Lunaria, a nebula of colors and lights. A star suddenly became more and more light in color as it fell down to the ground. I followed the light with my eyes, mesmerized by it. Soon enough it touched the ground.

That was the moment when i saw the star forming a figure, a familiar yet unknown silhouette. The light figure took the shape of a beautiful tempest, blue nebulas emanating from her heavenly eyes. My breath stopped as I followed her shape with my eyes, unsure on who that figure was.

As the figure approached me, I soon realized who she was. She was my mother. The spirit of my mother was there, right in front of me, looking at me with sadness in her eyes. I was breathless, speechless in the face of my most burning wish that was granted that night.

That very night I had my wish fulfilled, my wish that hunted every birthday of my existence, the wish that I could meet the very creature that gave me life. She approached me and cuddled me just like a mother would do with her cubs. She did not spoke to me, she just glanced at me and somehow I could understand her thoughts. She never regretted her death. For her it was enough that she could watch all my steps from the night sky. I felt the sorrow slowly elevated from my shoulders and empty soul.

It didn’t last long, her spirit slowly begun to shatter in the air, returning to her eternal celestial place. She returned to her rightful place, and I had my birthday wish granted.