Mr.
Mountain knew he had made a mistake. He realized Ms. Ocean had changed. She
wasn’t playing by the rules. Normally, this would have made Mr. Mountain angry
but it made him sad. He realized his daughter hated him that much. High up in
the altitude, where the original land from the bottom was at, water came to
talk to Mr. Mountain. “Sweetie, what’s wrong?” “Our daughter, she hates me”
“She strongly dislikes you; She’s had this feeling since the day she found out
how she was made.” I know but I always thought it was anger, I never knew she
hated me. Sweetheart, she hates me. What she displayed a few moment ago was
hate.” Water takes her cloud and wraps around the top of Mr. Mountain creating
a fog. Water sighs, “Mr. Mountain, she doesn’t hate you.
She
has changed…. I will say that much… but she doesn’t hate you. The earth around
here has changed her. Look at her environment. She’s always next to huge cities
with huge populations. People don’t care about her. In some sense, she blames
you for that.” “But why?” I know that
people don’t care about her; they don’t care about me either. Look down at the
bottom. They litter me with beer cans and spray paint my rocks, some even set
me on fire.” “Well sweet heart, when you
get mad, you have a tendency to scare people. I mean you knock down their
homes, you kill people sweet heart. You snap and everyone has to feel your
pain. By the way, what’s with this whole shaking thing? If you keep rising,
you’re going to be in outer space.” “Well maybe I don’t want to be on this
planet anymore.
You
think I like being up here? “Uh yeah? I mean why the hell else would you
shake--- never mind I know why you came up here.” “Why did you leave me for so long?” “Really? Mr. Big bad Mountain range wants to
know why I left him for so long?” “I’ve never asked about this. I’ve been
holding this back for centuries. Why did you leave?” Water sighs, “ I….I left
because…you became too needy. “I’m sorry, did you say I became too
needy??” “Well, you did! You always
wanted me.” “I needed you, you’re
freaking water for fuck sake! People needed you.” “Yes but I needed you to grow up, yes the pun
was intended. Look, you grew up. Look at
how majestic you are. Look at how my body lays across your strong mysterious
body.” “Yeah, but look at what’s it’s
caused.” “It’s caused something beautiful.
On
a good day, when the sun rises, you stand so bold and beautiful. The sun
glistens off my surface as I’m wrapped around your peaks. The sun melts me a
little bit so that I can trickle down your body, all the way to the bottom. We
feed the animals and provide them shelter. I’m spread across your body and grow
trees, nourish the ground. Mr. Mountain, Mr. Land, you are my love and every
day and every night, for the past centuries I lay with you high in the
altitudes away from everything on earth, no animals, no people, no noise, just
me, you, the sun and the stars. I come in the forum of fog and wrap around you,
I come in the forum of snow and Ice so that I’m always close to you. I enter
into your soil so that you and I are one. I love you land.” “I love you too
water.”
“I just wish our daughter knew
that.” “Mi amore, if she could ever reach up here, her opinion would change. As
for now, she can’t. I love our daughter but her environment has made her
vicious. I do realize she has a temper, she’s like her father.” Water smiles,
Mr. Mountain stares at the sunset and begins to get angry. He shakes the ground
a little. At the bottom, Mr. River is still combating with the crack. The crack
has become wide and it’s starting to break. Mr. River, driven by anger and all
the extra power from his mother, he crashes into the mountain side very
aggressive. Rocks began to fall, boulders start to fall, Mr. River is starting
to carve his way through.
To be continued….
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