The Sad Dream

 Last night I dreamt a man was in love with a wizard and they lived in the woods together. The man hunted and the wizard kept a garden. They lived in the woods in the middle of the country. The wizard was practicing spells to transform into a bird. Some days the man would find the wizard in the woods or a field , exhausted from his efforts to change into a bird.  One day while working a bird came and sat near the man. Then another came and then another until the man began to worry. He ran through the fields calling for the wizard. At the base of a tree he found clothes and a spellbook. He knew the wizard had succeeded. The man waited for the wizard to return. He watched the birds for some recognition. As days passed he knew the wizard had not only changed his body but also his mind. As a bird he was no longer tied to this home. The man did all he could for the birds of the forest; he even stopped eating fowl. The dream ends with images of the man in all seasons providing food and shelter to all the local birds, getting older every year but ever hopeful.