Thursday, August 14, 2014

A deep comma

Comma (,)
is a pause
the deeper you went into the pause
the longer it takes to come out of a comma

Do you think this is an old story being retold?
You are probably right because there are no new stories,
You are welcome to come into a story for the first time,
each time.

The protagonist of this story is a bird. This bird was the colour blue
and loved to feel the wind in her face. Let us give the bird a name
so we do not have to refer to the bird as a
he or a she or an it.
Blue likes to fly (all birds do) but Blue took it one degree higher,
by liking it so much that when she couldn't do it due to weather conditions, or when there were bigger birds of prey out there, Blue starts to sob.
And every time Blue sobs, a feather falls from one of Blue's wings. All of us Blue's friends warned Blue that this was not the way to deal with the cannot-fly times of life.
"When you can't fly, you should sit on the fence and talk, or smoke, or do a job that makes you forget you cannot fly" we said.
But we did not know that this was a condition Blue was suffering from. It was not something Blue could control.
Blue does not know yet that the condition has two possible outcomes: a) Blue can sob till all the feathers fall off and then fade away as this condition is fatal (like life, it ends in the end).
b) Blue can look for a comma and go into it, as deep as Blue wants to. If Blue comes out of the comma, then it is eternal flying and to heights where there are no he, she, it, they. Only the vast blue.