CMP
06-30-2008, 03:03 PM
Lightning bolts shake the very ground as a old man stands in silence reflecting the days practices. The young man who walked by his house with his long sword pointed towards the woods. The scream of a young girl far in the woods, only to find a young women stand in front of him asking for help to cure her wounds. She now sleeps in one of the empty rooms of his three building estate. His sons last goodbyes still shakes him at night as he drinks his tea late at night. His son rode a horse to never return, he promised a return 20 years ago. But the presence of his lively son still paint the rooms of his loosely maintained house. A young boy runs to him through the rain.
"Master Gong, please sit." The old man looks down like waking out of a dream he shakes to life. He softly walks to a chair near a table with hot tea waiting for him. He pats the boys head and asks him to sit and listen to him one last time before the boy leaves for a war he never asked for.
"Son, I have trained many men, and young boys like yourself. As old, or as young as they are, their last goodbyes always shake me as their tearful eyes leave me a silent stab at night. It is my job as directed by my elders 40 years ago to train boys into men to join their army never to be allowed to leave that army till death. The wars have passed, and the blood has created a river in my soul. I never will come to peace to what I do to the young men. I send them off to lose their life even if they don't die they are never alive again, I have seen the army years ago I will never go back, what I saw there were thousands of young men, hundreds i had trained dead mentally. I hope for you to not live through what they have. I have set up your freedom ride, to a place far from all this." He takes a sip of tea, the young boy confused but yet crying understanding what the old man did. "Don't worry about me my son, I have taken in a women into the house she will travel with you. She knows where to go, and what to do."
The young boy stood and bowed to the old man, and ran to his room to gather his things. Soft foot prints traveled to the old man from the room behind him. He sat knowing who was behind him. She came to him and sat. " Master Gong..." He stood and walked to his flowers.
"Master Gong, please sit." The old man looks down like waking out of a dream he shakes to life. He softly walks to a chair near a table with hot tea waiting for him. He pats the boys head and asks him to sit and listen to him one last time before the boy leaves for a war he never asked for.
"Son, I have trained many men, and young boys like yourself. As old, or as young as they are, their last goodbyes always shake me as their tearful eyes leave me a silent stab at night. It is my job as directed by my elders 40 years ago to train boys into men to join their army never to be allowed to leave that army till death. The wars have passed, and the blood has created a river in my soul. I never will come to peace to what I do to the young men. I send them off to lose their life even if they don't die they are never alive again, I have seen the army years ago I will never go back, what I saw there were thousands of young men, hundreds i had trained dead mentally. I hope for you to not live through what they have. I have set up your freedom ride, to a place far from all this." He takes a sip of tea, the young boy confused but yet crying understanding what the old man did. "Don't worry about me my son, I have taken in a women into the house she will travel with you. She knows where to go, and what to do."
The young boy stood and bowed to the old man, and ran to his room to gather his things. Soft foot prints traveled to the old man from the room behind him. He sat knowing who was behind him. She came to him and sat. " Master Gong..." He stood and walked to his flowers.