Once there was a son who woke up his father.
"Father! Father, I was killed!"
Abruptly the beardy old man got up from his dreams.
"My son!"
His eyes were shocked and his heart beating fast.
It was already three in the afternoon. He realized his nap became like a whole night sleep. All he remembered, he was too tired he went to rest. He had been working in his garden. He has a big garden in front and around his enormous house, but he always prefer to attend to his plants, flowers, trees and animals as well. He loves them.
Then he remembered, he was reading his favorite series of The Pen.
The Writer Series 11 Called 3 (tap link to read)
Without realizing it, he fell asleep in his swinging bed. He was able to finish reading the story and then staring up to the sky, trying to imagine what the father could have done to the dead son.
He left the bed to sit in one of the chairs made of bamboo rattan like the other three more chairs with its square table making a garden set of furnitures.
A house servant approached him to ask if he wanted anything to drink or eat. He dismissed the offer kindly.
From where he was seated, he could see the front main gate of his property. He was looking straight ahead seeing nothing really, for his mind was occupied with something else.
He remembered his younger son's words to him just few hours ago, before going out again through that Main Gate to invite elected guests for the feast in the house.
"Forgive them father. They do not know what they're doing."
He thought for a while what the son has just said before he responded.
"Then go ahead, my son. I leave them unto your hands. Harvest what you can get from them and burn the rest. For they must understand that I have sent you for I am in you."
So the son left to do the will of the father.
He raised himself up from his chair and took a walk around his big garden. As he did, the past came back again to his mind.
He used to have someone, a man who was the caretaker of his garden. This man with whom he found someone, a woman, to help him in his task.
In the garden, there was a very special and meaningful tree for him. He would never tell anyone why, he will just say it means life to him.
The house and everything around it is owned by the father alone. Nobody understood why, neither anyone of the servants and others who know him have dared to ask.
The day came when his garden caretakers had a child, a first son. He was happy for them, treating the child like his own, just like his treatment to his parents.
As the child grew, he realized that he was disobedient to his parents. He felt sadness about it for he loved them all.
Time passed by and another son was born. It brought him another happiness.
The younger son turned out to be the opposite in personality and character from his elder brother. He was good and obedient. In whatever that he was, he found favor before the eyes of the father.
As both of the two children grew up, their parents have taught them and imposed in their minds the importance of the mentioned tree by the father. They leave them instructions to give it the biggest, significant care for it was the most important to the father. It has been their teachings to their children till the day each one of them died.
The man caretaker died first then the woman. Their sons were already grown up teens when left by their parents. They were left to the father.
Since then, both sons lived the rest of their lives in the enormous house of the father.
To live in the father's house, there was only one condition. Obey him. For all who lives in it, all servants obey the father's will and instructions.
Life went on for both sons until one day, the older one committed an unforgivable mistake.
He cut down the most important, untouchable tree in the garden, imagining it as the life of his younger brother, feeling strong jealousy towards him. He put all his anger in the dagger that cuts down the tree into pieces.
The father found out what he did, and the elder son was sent outside the Main Gate.
"If you can't obey me, go outside and do what you want. Just remember, you don't own anything. Neither here inside nor outside. For my eyes will be on you and everything that you do."
This father is the sole owner of everything inside and outside of the Main Gate. He has servants inside and outside that works for him.
Years gone by and both sons grew up. One with him and the other outside the Main Gate.
As those years passed by, the father's annointed men incharge of everything he owned outside the Main Gate had come to report to him about their assigned task and areas.
Through them, the father came to know what the other son had been doing. How he had been destroying and complicating the lives of all the people.
Knowing these, in the presence of the younger son, he sent him.
"Live with them, my son. Save my people."
And the son bowed and responded with agreement.
"Your will be done, for you are my Father."
Then the Main Gate opened as it was narrated by the invited guest of the gate's guard in his Paradise Walk.
The Paradise Walk (click to the link)
Finally, The Pen's writer finished writing and reading this story of "Once upon a time..." when there was a son whose blood claimed the Father for he was killed by his own brother.
End.
