A Long Walk Home (8th March daily prompt)

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It's been a long time coming, I walked down the path thinking that repeatedly in my mind. It's been a long time coming. The rains had come in early with the rainbows taking up the sky like a lousy fog. I walked faster, I needed to get home and see my family before the funeral began. The road was damp and the air smelt of lilies. Rays of reappearing sunlight sneaked through the trees, filtering themselves through the leaves and casting shadows of a wired cage on the ground beneath them. I thought I was the one in the cage, and they represented my situation. Mary, you're just rambling, I told myself. Behave, think straight, and so I did. I brought out my phone to scroll through my Instagram, but suddenly remembered I had been locked out of my account. Putting my chin up, I straightened my back and walked briskly home, there was a funeral waiting for me to attend.

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