Annunciation: With A Sound Like Wings

To you it seems a foregone conclusion, the obvious outcome, the only possible answer
Who could say no to an angel?

But there was a moment when I hesitated. I remember a wild desire to be left alone, to be obscure again and safeI wanted the angel to leave, to find some other girl for his strange Invitation

And yet: I answered
I leaned towards the angel and, with a sound like wings, the future was born in me