The Tale of The Followers (t.b.c)

Something I'm Trying To Develop

Guys ,I Know i've posted a few poems on this site, But I really just wanted a little feedback, This is something I've started and I can ask family to have a look but as you know what they really think and what they say are two totally different things, so was really looking for some independent thoughts really and if i've over stepped the mark by putting it on I do apologise.
Oh and please don't think i'm vain with the main characters name i Am Definately gonna change it. It was just easy to use my own at the time.
 
Cheers John
 
Title T.B.C
 
I was powerless, I pounded the glass, I pleaded to god, I screamed out until I thought my chest and lungs would explode, but they couldn’t (wouldn’t?) hear my pleading tears streamed down my cheeks, I turned and looked to them “Why?” I asked “is life that meaningless to you?” “On the contrary John, Life is everything to us, but this plague has to be cleansed, they are a stain, a mistake if you will, they were given a chance but failed to live up to their potential. You as well as any of us should realise this. You, who has lived amongst them for 2 millennia. You who has seen their bloodlust, their desire to hurt and to destroy, yet you would be their saviour?
You must remember the last time a saviour was sent to them and how they repaid that act?” I Stood, I stared then realised no matter how hard I begged, and no matter how hard I pleaded I would not or could not get through to them. They had completely forgotten that they too had once been human…..
 
The Beginning
 
The Year of my Awakening was 917 BC. My Name was (Is) John I was twenty eight years of age when it happened and this is how we begin the Tale of the Followers.
 
I believe I have always been a humble man. I have always believed in seeing the good in others even when there has in truth been very little there, which throughout my life brought a great happiness to me but a fair bit of scorn from my friends and loved ones, they believed me too forgiving or Naïve for my own good. I suppose in some ways I was and still am. I believe in change you see, and helping others to change, which is why I believe I was chosen that day.
  It was a warm morning I had been awoken by the singing of birds and a blazing golden sunlight that beamed through the windows of my home, as I remember, it was the most vivid gold and seemed to penetrate every part of my house and warmed it and I like nothing else I had or have ever since experienced
“John! John, come quick! You must see. It is so beautiful” Her voice was a wondrous thing to hear and the life in her tones brought joy to my heart (even after all these years I still miss her.) She rushed through the door like a small excited child, even though she was 23 years of age and mature beyond those years “The sky is alive, it is like every bird in the world has come to welcome the day, and sing and dance their welcome” I was still trying to fully awaken and get my senses together but she wouldn’t take no for an answer and there was absolutely no way I was going to get any more sleep now no matter how hard I tried to protest. “This better be worth it “I tried to growl at her but she knew I teased and just smiled, which grew into a mischievous grin which then followed her grabbing my legs and begin pulling me out of the bed. I was still trying to get dressed as she pulled or rather dragged me towards the door and in truth her excitement was infectious as I had never seen anyone so excited to meet the dawn. She reached the door, and opened it to the most amazing sight I have ever seen.
   I stood transfixed I had never seen a sight like it before in my life, I couldn’t see the ground, every where I looked there were birds nestled, as well as swooping through the sky as if they were praising the arrival of the day I could see Hawks and eagles there were Doves and starlings there were species of birds I had never laid eyes on before in my entire life and they were fearless they never acknowledged my presence. I stepped out among them and they had no fear of me whatsoever which was a little unnerving for me. I walked for maybe a hundred or so yards amongst them and they paid me no heed, they just shuffled aside and let me in, all the while the sky seemed to be getting brighter, I squinted and shadowed my eyes with my hands trying to shield them from the glare of the sun, I glanced around at my wife who was just staring out past me with a huge smile across her face, she seemed to be weeping, but these were tears of happiness not sorrow.”Can you feel it John”? Her voice sounded as if she was standing next to me whispering in my ear, but she was a distance away.” Can you feel the peace can you feel the calm, the love”? How her voice had covered that distance and still felt so close I couldn’t know, I could feel her breath on my cheek, yet it was impossible for it to happen. It would have been easy for me to succumb to those emotions as it was intoxicating to see and feel, but something just unnerved me I had never seen animals act in this fashion before and to hear her voice that way was, in fairness a little unsettling. I turned to go back to her and as I took that first pace a hush descended over the plains as if those birds were in awe of what was coming.
  Again her voice came to my ears “Do you hear? The singing, John. The singing. it’s so beautiful” I heard nothing, and that in itself caused me to be nervous I admit that my immediate awe of what was on display here was now becoming a little overshadowed by her reaction to it all. I scanned all around, listening, trying to hear what she could, but nothing other than bird song. All the while the sun seemed to be getting brighter and brighter and to my utter amazement the birds descended into silence I raised my head towards the sun and to my astonishment the brightness wasn’t coming solely from it, there was another bright ball of light descending to earth. I was transfixed. Staring. I could neither avert my eyes nor move from where I stood I could hear her behind me “So beautiful, so beautiful. God has come”. Now I am a god fearing man and I didn’t know what was happening, my fear level was rising all the time that I stood there and all I wanted to do was run, to be away from that place I didn’t know why my reaction was as it was it just well….was.
I watched as the light hit the ground the birds beneath it scattered and rose in front of it like a wave opening up a pathway direct from the light straight to my feet 
 

Posted 20/03/13 (12:03)