28/11/2025
“The Falcon Who Taught Me to Rise Again”
I didn’t find him.
He found me.
I was sitting on the hill behind my house
a place I used to go when life felt too heavy
staring at nothing in particular.
My mind was loud, but the world was quiet.
Then a shadow crossed the grass in front of me.
Not rushing,
not startled
just gliding over the earth like it had every right to be there.
When I looked up,
a falcon circled above me,
wings slicing the morning light into silver ribbons.
He could have flown anywhere.
But he chose to land a few feet away,
tilting his head the way falcons do
when they’re trying to understand your heartbeat
before you understand it yourself.
He wasn’t injured.
He wasn’t trapped.
He simply sat there,
feathers lifted slightly by the wind,
watching me with a kind of calm I hadn’t felt in a long time.
For a moment, neither of us moved.
I didn’t speak;
I didn’t reach for him.
I just breathed
and realized it was the first deep breath I’d taken in days.
Falcons don’t offer comfort the way softer animals do.
They don’t nudge or curl or cling.
They heal in a different way
by being exactly what they are,
completely, unapologetically whole.
He stood tall,
even in stillness.
Grounded,
even though he belonged to the sky.
And somehow, just by being there,
he reminded me of something I’d forgotten:
Strength isn’t noise.
Sometimes it’s just the choice to stay standing
when your heart is tired.
He stayed with me for a long while,
long enough for the tightness in my chest
to loosen like a knot finally learning it can unravel.
And when he finally spread his wings,
the sound of them cutting the air
felt like a lesson:
“Rise.
Not fast.
Not far.
Just rise.”
I watched him climb higher and higher
until he was nothing but a dark shape
on a bright sky.
But even after he vanished,
the calm he brought stayed behind
settled inside me like a quiet truth:
Healing doesn’t always look like someone holding you.
Sometimes it looks like a falcon
landing beside you just long enough
to remind you how to lift your spirit
back into the air.
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