CafeDragon-Kun

My name is Rebecca, but I want to go by Jaybird. I'm seventeen but I feel like I'm centuries old. I don't know what I am, but part of me loves someone I shouldn't. My family are strangers connected to me by nothing by blood. I don't want the life my mother wants me to have and she won't listen when I tell her. I don't want the life everyone lives. I don't want everything I do to be recorded. I want my freedom and I fear I'll have to break others hearts to get it. I dream of a life away from the norm. I dream of being as my ancestors were. A warrior. A wanderer. My soul is an old one, without a place in the modern world. ...What's a

I am. I am different. I am a caged bird who watches her captors, learns their ways. I see how they open and close my cage, repetition. All around me in this darkened stone room I've been sitting. Year and year past. When I was a child, I was hurt for how I felt, how I dreamed. I once dreamt of being a dancer, but people said it wasn't possible. I dreamt of being a writer, but people said it wasn't right. People I was meant to trust betrayed me and people I loved broke me. Now I'm waking up. I no longer hear them. I've come to realize that I am...strange. My soul is an old one. My heart belongs to the world. My path lies in shad