A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings By GGM
Summary- While killing crabs in the courtyard during a rainstorm, A couple discovers a wearied, old and disoriented man, He is peculiar and an outcaste, Shabby with large wings, and unaware of the local language, Latin! Concluding him to be an ANGEL, as their sick daughter recovers, upon his arrival. They decide to keep the old man alive and not butcher him! But they butcher him in ways far more treacherous than a one-time slaughter! ☹ They throw him in the chicken coop, to suffer incessantly! People from far-off places visit to see him, The couple makes money from every visit, Villagers pelt stones at him, pluck his feathers, and disregard him in every way possible! ☹ A day comes, when the coop collapses, The old man starts wandering from room to room in the house, infuriating the wife! Finally, a day comes, when the old man stretches his wings, And takes off, escaping the ceaseless cruelty imposed by the humans. The wife sees him go, till he disappears over the horizon!! ...