Identification

I am Sonic the Hedgehog. I am a hero, I am the wind. I can fly without wings and live without limitations. I can fight forever, and give others the strength to fight. I am a protector, a future father, keeping endless visual over my friends…my family.

I am tireless, brave, stupid, reckless. I have broken hearts and mended them in the same second. I have wished upon stars and dreamed of far-off planets. I have almost drowned in a pool, and risked my life in my only fear to save a girl I'm not sure I love.

I am quiet. I am peaceful. I am loud and boisterous. I have picked flowers and smashed robots. I have believed faithfully in the soul of others, I have lost all hope. I have gained nothing, I have lost everything. Every day, the air I breathe may be my dying breath.

I have been captured, I have been free. I've seen the spirit realm. I've traveled for miles on an empty stomach. I've lived on nothing but stardust for many nights. I fear the water, blue as my fur. I drown every day in a field of undulating grass. I feel the beauty of the earth beneath my feet. I have seen the terror of the skies.

I claim the wind as my home, I have no residence. The sun rising is my alarm clock, the morning dew my daily bath. A tree branch is my feather bed, its leaves a shady roof. When storms come and rain falls, I cower under giant leaves. I have shivered to keep warm, and curled up to keep dry. I have laid out in the sun for hours, passing out from the warmth.

I have believed in the light and reveled in darkness. I have seen faith, and known love. I am dedicated. I am full of faults. Comforts may be beyond my reach. Comforts are in my grasp.

I try to feel nothing, yet I feel everything, as impressionable as wind chimes. My song is the song of the whistling wind—tell me, can you hear me?

Forever fast, forever here, I cannot be chained and yet I am tied down. Here. Now. This is my world.

Do you hear it?

-Sonic the Hedgehog