2010/11- Nostalgia

Kaoori

I saw a herd of deer today.  Seems strange, everyone here  normally doesn't herd, only during the rut..

I don't believe I'd ever seen these deer before.  They all looked the same, kept to each other, followed a leader..

like back at home.  No. No.. that wasn't home. They weren't home.. my home is here.

They did not care about me.  They brought me here, abandoned me.  What a mistake they made.

This is the best home I could ever have.

But why do I still wonder how they are?  My real parents...  

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Umi

I saw a herd of deer today in the distance, as I lay in the birch.  At  first I was elated, I thought my family had come to rescue me.  I raced  down the hill, only to find that these deer were much larger than I..and  looked nothing like my own herd.

Then I remembered that it was my own herd that had driven me away in the  first place.  Why I was here.. I had stumbled upon this place in my  exile.  In my short time here, I had never seen a herd.  This was the  first, and even the other deer in this forest seemed a bit puzzled by  them.  Do the deer not herd in this forest?  I have seen small groups  but none acting like a herd.  I'm afraid I won't fit in here, if I don't  learn how to act like everyone soon..

I miss my family..