|
|
|
|
|
Poems by Paintings |
| The Bird Cage | |
|
|
|
| The Bird Cage | |
p
|
Once a pastor began to speak about what he did last week George Thomas was his name This man who came from a small New England town got to church and there put down very visible frontal on stage a rusty old bird cage On that Easter Sunday morning everyone looked up curious awaiting what Thomas was about to say: I was walking through town yesterday when I saw a young boy wildly swinging this cage around out of the cage came an anxious sound of three little wild birds which were cold, shivering and crawled away whistling softy as if they wanted to say it hurts He stopped the lad and said: "What you got there, son?" "Just some old birds" he smiled with self-satisfaction "And what are you gonna do with them? "Take 'em home and have fun with 'em" said the boy full of joy "I'm gonna tease them and pull out their feathers to make them fight I'm just gonna have a good time enjoying that tonight" "But a question again when.. you get tired of those birds what will you do then?" The little boy proudly said: "then I'll feed them to my cat" For a moment the pastor kept silent then asked "how much do you want for those birds, son?" "huh?!" he asked as if he was listening to a crazy patient "these are ugly plain old field birds that don't even sing" but the pastor asked again "how much for everything?" thinking "well if you're that crazy" he said "let's make it a dollar or eighty?!" Without a word he put it in the boy's hand in a flash the boy went away and the pastor picked up the bird cage gently walked to the park and set the birds free Therefore the cage in the church stood empty and Thomas began this story: One day Satan met Jesus and started talking Satan had just come from the Garden of Eden and was gloating and boasting and he said: beware I just caught your world of people down there set me a trap, used bait now they're angry and afraid I knew they couldn't resist it I got them all, just admit! Jesus asked "what are you going to do with them?" Satan replied "o, I'm gonna have fun with'em! make them marry and then divorce let them use their power and force to abuse each other by telling them that it don't bother I learn them how to hate how to shoot each other with a gun they will steel, lie and lose faith and kill each other just for fun Jesus asked "and what will you do when you get done?" "O, I'll kill 'em" Satan glared proudly "How much do you want for them?" Jesus asked quickly "Huh" the devil said "you don't want those people, they're bad when you'll take them they'll hate you, spit on you, curse you and kill you I'm sure you don't want that, will you?" "How much?" He asked again "All right then all your tears and all your blood" Satan sneered Jesus said: DONE! paid the price and the devil disappeared then it was only a matter of time before Satan definitely has gone The bird cage is still standing on the floor with an open door |
| Mulderiaan: The Bird Cage, May
2011 (drawing and poem) Author original story: Unknown (source of story: www.heartnsouls.com) |