Friday, April 13, 2012

ON MY KNEES

A short story: Bertha

There was this man who fought his way through the crowd to find himself standing alone in the spotlight. His sweet cherry colored hair dancing in the neon lights. His perfect pearly smile illuminated the room like moonbeams in the darkest night. He sang spreading his wings like a nightingale bringing joy to lonely hearts in the middle of an enchanted forest, leaving a trail of tears for the broken hearts to find their way home. But his eyes cannot be seen for his gaze is bestowed upon the horizon. He has never touched a single flower that bloomed on his path nor embraced the wind on his shoulder. Tinted glasses rested on his perfectly chiselled nose and onward, forward as always he goes. One night he met the enchantress of the forest whose beauty can sail a thousand vessels in the roughest seas. And for once he started to sing hymns of love for his beating heart. But his Venus object of love was not meant for human possession for she lives and breathes at the command of Mother Nature, to avoid the chaos between man and nature she chose to never again be lead to this temptation of a mortal’s embrace. So gone with the wind is this man’s object of affection, his heart started to violently rebel and pound against his will to live. He clutched his chest as to loosen its circulation, finding himself on his knees. The tinted glasses fell to kiss the ground and broke into pieces, and tears graced upon the earth. Fighting for air he looked up into the heavens and whispered a prayer “Oh help me for I am broken and my heart could not take the pain”. But as he stared into the sky his heart gently lightens, a voice of calmness spoke in his heart “Oh what beauty is found in the clouds, serenity found in the blue skies, all this time my eyes lied to me, life has not abandoned me for I have not seen such wonderful colors nor felt the warmth of the sun”. Then Mother Nature spoke through the trees, “My son if you were not brought to your knees would you have gazed upon the sky, nor acknowledged the sun? you have been fooled by tainted pictures when life is simply within your reach.” So from then he would kneel on his knees and gaze upon the sky, enjoy the sunshine and marvel at the gift bestowed upon every man. THE END.

Sunday, April 8, 2012

PITY : A SHORT STORY By: Bertha



A girl sat on a bench on a cold winter day, watching the skies as the dark gray clouds circle around the very shy sun beam that seem to deprive her visions of clear surroundings. Icicles have formed her once bright and humble eyelids.  “How could the snow be more pure than the rain that hid the brokenness of the past” she said in her mind. “I wish for the sparrow in a branch to sing songs of love again in spring, that my longing shall be put to ease, where thou art is the man who was pulled from Adams ribs, and the man that was  born from Eve’s womb, wasn’t he designed to love” she sigh in exhaustion. As passer by gaze upon her lovely face, her eyes spoke in pain and it echoed through the cold frozen stares of strangers who took pity on her. They said with curiosity, this girl has lost her heart in a frightening battle of unrequited love and her rejection has cause her tremendous lost. This man who broke her heart grasp vigorously for his head as it floats and blew so big should he hear the thoughts of these uncaring strangers. He would have said "What foolishness there is with this woman sitting on a park bench under a bare tree with her sleeping gown in front of a large empty park crying like the world is the four corners of her room". With this thought her heart and mind spoke to her in in chilled wisp of air “Yes the world may see me cry, I will not hide my tears, the world may see me break I will not hide my weaknesses, should they rejoice on my errors, should they shame me with my wounds and scars that has brought me endless tears, they should take heart that in the journey of life I had the courage to love, I had the courage to live, I had the courage to fall and pick myself up again.”  “Yes what foolishness I bring to a very cold winter day, but pity I shall not let it in for this broken heart was made for true love.”  “I have not lost my dignity for in accepting that brokenness was made to humble me gained me myself respect.” “So pity is the man I have loved and rejected me for He will never know the purity of foolishness that true love brings”.