Lost Innocence

4.15.2009 @ 10:32 AM♥

I found this out while reading the book Kevin gave me and it's something really worth reading :D

The two electric wires hummed along at their work. They knew they had very important jobs.

The two of them spent their lives in a happy attraction to each other. In the afternoons and evenings they died for a chance to just touch one another. When their attraction was too great, they asked the sparrows to jump from one wire to another, and take along a kiss or an embrace.

On Friday nights at about eight, an old crow always came and passed the time with the wires. He lived in the neighborhood even before the wires had been hung on the electricity pole. The two of them told him of their great longing and attraction, but they kept being 50 centimeters apart.

He told them, "It is a great gift to be attracted to one another, especially if you are electric wires. You see each other daily and can express your every need to each other. But the two of you are too similar to be joined to one another. If that should happen, then you will lose all your mutual attraction and none of your wishes will ever come true."

The two of them, however, believed in another truth. But the crow tried to persuade them that fulfillment was not the solution of attraction. "Both of you will just melt. And when you are well again, you will remain wires, but without attraction."

But the two wires did not believe the crow's words and the tension between them became more intense.

Then one day there was a big storm. The wind lifted up a dry branch and tossed it around the air. Then losing interest, it dropped the rain-soaked branch and it fell across the two electric wires. There was a big blue flash as the wires short-circuited.

For hours, the wires hung lifeless, and slept alongside one another. In their greatest moment, they were not able to speak a single word to one another.

After they regained their health, they never spoke to one another again. There was no longer any attraction or longing they could talk about.

by Willi Hoffseummer

***Learned something? :D

Lost Innocence

4.15.2009 @ 10:32 AM♥

4.15.2009 @ 10:32 AM♥