Lives in Flight

Por Oscar David Rojas Moscote
Temática Otro idioma

At a very far forest there was a family of swallows that lived in a nest on one of the branch of the oldest Oak. The mom swallow's life was difficult, since the death of her partner; she’d had to raise her children.

One night, when the baby swallows slept, a shadow covered the nest. It was a dark crow. Suddenly, the crow saw the nest and immediately got down to catch the swallows. This hungry crow just wanted all those babies for its dinner, but it had a problem, it didn’t know that their mom would defend her babies with her own life. The battle began, crow versus mom, obviously, the crow would win but the fighting soul of this mom broke all physical theories. Sky and forest did a dual to support the scene. Wind and leaves were dancing over a lightning sky, while the mom crashed the neck of crow against a pine, trying to save her babies. The crow freed itself thanks to his crawls; it hit the mom and went to the nest. When the crow took the nest with its claws, mom hurried to their rescue again, and this time the hit was enough to hurt the crow, but before suffering the most mortal strike that a crow could ever receive, by the strike’s inertia, the crow accidentally sent the nest to the bottom of the Oak and disturbed the mom’s flight who tried to save the fall of her nest. Finally she missed it. It destroyed the mom’s hopes, who felt such as rage that she hit the crow almost to die. The devastated crow, with broken bones and a new character, flew away and learned a lesson. This crow wouldn’t be the same since that night. The next sunset saw a destroyed crow that barely could fly. For the first time, a crow felt guilty and ashamed.

But, what happened with that mom that couldn’t be a mom anymore? She sat at the old Oak, thinking how the death could be better than her remaining life… but at the end who lost more? One that lost everything? Or one that lost his identity?