2014년 5월 26일 월요일

An Ode to a Dead Worm


(picture from Glogster Edu )





How red the field you’ve been lying on? How dried the dust upon your mucus?

Was the funeral affluent for the soul who had cultivated the wild land through his whole life for the sake of every creature on earth?

Besides, I need to say some words. No matter how humble the funeral was, it is all over. As the solely witness of his death, here I call to remembrance the day.

The smell of the early morning – when the prelude of tragic was desperately played for the creatures who can’t hear it close – raised people up enforcing to live the next day. They pivot around a clock, unlikely to any other creature. Cloudy sky didn’t mean it, but you were the one who was fooled by the humid soil.

Oh people, the giant creatures! They were thoughtless and careless enough to murder the little brittle life. Two hundreds of legs passed on you, beating the earth mercilessly, haughtily and lazily. From a far distance, they came closer and closer to let you abhor. They were idle but expedite as a battalion marching over a naïve, peaceful village.

Once, the body might be crushed, though the mighty soul won’t submit to the pain. You wrinkle celestially and it belies the spectator to believe you are praising the holy God with your entire body. Yes, you truly are praising the God! Sublimating your agony, ordeal to laud! Exhale that you yet still alive! – And thank God, the violent tremble was shown to the dull people who only can run around the red circles.

Twice, the body might be torn and ripped as numerous soles stabbed the same section without ill will – which makes it more evil. Steadily, slowly, the red body which is not more reddish than any blood, but more than the field. The body would never bounce in grace of the Nature, or in the pain of the life, and stay still until it recover and heal.

Thrice, the body might be sleeping and dreaming his dark wet home deep inside the ground. Clitellum fades to ivory white, yet the body darkens to brick red. Just a few feet afar from your haven, and just a few hours left to enter the heaven, the color of your pain will be blurred with some tiredness and the smell of the death will be changed into comfort.

And a feeble hand may take a branch and poke, not to torture but to convey her sorrow, and lift the light being to lie on the earth. You were stronger than the hand, enduring all the insult everyone had spit. Though the incompetent hand can’t give you another life, and the unclever brain won’t mourn for seven days, but they would be grateful to their left chances.