Axis of the earth

He was a poor shepherd who lived alone in a hut. He used to cross swamps and lakes in order to find the grass for his sheeps. Only two loafs of bread a day is what the years made him eat, and each time you look into his shabby clothes and the wrinkles that made his face looks like a map; you can behold the betterment of life and the torment of several melancholy years. The groan and moan of the days are traced and seen. But he was a wise old man with a sharp eyes and a soulful soul. Add to that he likes his dog who stood unflichingly against all forms of danger that may threaten his company. But the dog wasn't a strong one, he was as small as the shepherd's dreams. The shepherd enjoys sitting near the river tilting his head in the grass, singing hymns and looking at the starry night, moving far away to the galaxies with imagination and hope for a better future. Always rambling and roving in various spheres... he heard one day about a new doctor so he decided to talk with him because he was living near the countryside. Nero was a doctor and a member in a well-known political party. He is so unethical and he likes trafficking in human organs and taking bribery. He used to run most of his life through materialistic things but he is doomed to failure because he cannot even reach peace of mind while he is climbing the highest mountains.

Doctor: Who is knocking the door in this early morning.?

Shepherd: I am a citizen of the world. As you can see I am merely a skeleton, I want you to take me to the laboratory of postmortem so the students will get a decent benefit from me on their applied studies.

Doctor: It's freezing cold outside that's why the air on here affects your thinking. And it is just the failures of your past. I know that you want to get rid of stress that's why I will offer you a coat and a heater.

Shepherd: I am not going to cover up myself with any blanket or be wrapped by any coat, but I will take-off all my clothes, open all the doors and windows and I will sit cross-legged naked and run barefoot in the freezing cold. We homeless and victims of war, nothing can warm us and only the flames of fire which '' hephaestus" stole from the hideout of the gods in the mount of olympus can help and remedy us.

Doctor:  Love is the key ! hope is what makes us human beings, it is why we are in this world, it is what we struggle with when all else perish. And there is a tribulation today, I wish I can have you on my laboratory.

Shepherd: How could a person love and be hopeful and myriad of people are dying everyday in front of him under bombs and bullets.? You have to bare in mind that at night I sympathy with the homeless and in times of peace with all kind of races and colors around the world. At a moment with the peaceful solution and on the other moment with the military solution, at the middle of the month I cry and shout for a world-wide war and after getting my wage I dream of a world-wide universal peace. We became a rotten flesh that is musty and frowsty.

Doctor: You must see only the glossy side of life and be bullish. So you ought to see the darkness as a light, the sunset as a sunrise, the begging as a form of tourism, the pillage and looting as a development, the bilding of prisons as an achievement, the traffic jam as a peace of mind and the colonization as a freeing act.

Shepherd: Imagine that I was once hiding in an orchard near the cemetery and bullets are over my head, a green apple whispered from the branch and told me : Please pick me up and eat me ! The absolute truth is that I am super frustrated and terrified and I am roaming perplexed in the jungles and mountains, I am Knackered and in a tremendous amount of pain. Could you please allow me to tilt my head on the picture of the african activists for human rights or the quotes of "Churchill" ?

Doctor:  The face of criminality, ruination, sadism and killing are clearly on you ! you are the category of people which "cesare lombroso" talked about in his theories.

Shepherd: I am peaceful as the sweet breeze. I adore humanity and ethics, I also listen to Fayrouz each morning... The problem is that I have lost my land in the war of " 2003" and my family last month, my hope in the proverbs of peace, my mind in the war of lebanon, then my ability in analyzing poetry and political speeches, my dignity in the bars, my feeling of ressurance and safety about the world. I have been trying to restore my self-confidence and my hope for a better future but all my tries were futile and in vain. I feel like a mountain that the earth neglected and the sky divorced.

Doctor: Everything is ruled solely by fate ! why are you seeking all the excellences.? time truly does seem to heal all wounds and you have only your mother's arm to feel ressurance and peace.

Shepherd: I cannot touch it because between me and my mother's arm there are; hills, mountains, cascades, WW2, the siege of fallujah, emergency laws, curfew, security centers, checkpoints, rocket launchers, fleets of warships, neutron bombs, chemical weapons, warning stations, eavesdropping and spying devices.

Doctor: The pain of the past is still throbbing your present ! come and sit on this chair; it is rolling in all directions ( shepherd: yes like our politics) enjoy looking at the luminous crystal chandeliers and the red carpet that solved most of the public issues, and never forget to bow your head while looking at the political leaders who have been trying to spread peace all over the world. And gaze there near the smokestack to see my pillow on which I rest my head at night thinking for most of the victims like you.

Shepherd: Your brain is bulging with nonsense ! shall we take our beloved children from their necks with our teeth like cats.? Even in the countryside there is nothing green which can send ressurance to the self or charm and gaiety to life. If you don't trust me, ask the cold wintry nights, the wayside, the forlorn roads and the accumalted water-pools and I cannot even find anything to warm me in this freezing cold but the handle of my umbrella.

Doctor: It is what it is, it doesn't judge, it's neither good nor bad like most people think, it's the result of all actions positive and negative, a constant balancing of events, cause and effect, tit for tat, reaping and sowing, what goes around comes around. Don't worry you will find peace in heaven and here it seems that your future is cloacked in shadow.

Shepherd: I no longer demand anything from you or want you to be a healer doctor. I have been running all my life towards peace, freedom, prosperity, merriment and love. At the end I have got only the aging. Our beloved world is howling and trashing in agony, my past was like a prison from which no inmate could escape. I have lived screaming in a tortuous pain as the pounding grew each night louder and more forceful.

Nero slammed the door strongly and he was huffing and puffing and the shepherd entered a dark gloomy cave carrying a lamp on his hand looking for a virtuous person as "Diogenes of Sinope" did. Suddenly he slept and in his dream he was standing on hell's battlefields crossing oceans of blood seeing whole villages getting burned, houses plundered, women and children murdered, robbed and abducted. Every new day he was trying to reach peace of mind and dreaming to spread a universal peace or to find an antidote to the human mind.