Goodbye and Hello

“Do I have to?” I asked skeptically
“Yes, you must to do this for me.” My father said
I look down out of the gaping hole, and can barely spot the ground. My blood pulses throughout my body and I tremble as if there is an earthquake around me. I lift my wings, and rise to my toes to begin to take flight, yet something holds me back.
“I can’t do it!” I screamed
“If I believed that I would have never asked you to.”
My father always had such faith in me. I never accomplished tasks as quickly as my other siblings, but my father never loved me any less. To my brothers and sisters this was such an easy thing, but for me it was a difficult and seemingly unreachable task.
“When you reach the bottom, there will be people there to greet you. Listen and learn from these people, because I have designed you to be with them.”
“Listen and learn. Got it. But will I ever see you again?”
“Yes, when your time has expired, you will come here again.”
With this I felt reassurance. I looked back toward the exit, took the deepest breathe I could muster, and leaped out into the unknown. As I felt the wind pass through my wings and see the ground approaching quickly, I turn back towards the sky, and say goodbye to the only home I’ve ever known, Heaven, and hello to my one, here on Earth.