It was silence everywhere. Towering places of worship were trying to touch the blue sky. A pair of birds was watching high buildings of Jerusalem one after another. They were flying and talking about human beings. Suddenly they saw thousands of people were shouting in front of a high building. “Look there” the bird said to his friend “What is happening?”
“I told you” The second bird replied “They are God’s so called best creation they cannot breathe without violence. It’s hard for them to be peaceful.” Both birds took a long breath and kept flying.
They were flying continuously so they become very tired. They planed to stay somewhere to rest but they were waiting for a suitable place. Finally they found a dome of a beautiful building behind an attractive lake. It was really a very nice place. Beside the lake there was a large lawn where people used to come and throw some corn to welcome the traveling birds. There were very nice people who lived there. The birds liked this place very much so they spent there were about two years there; during those two years there several times they saw the exchange of bullets between two groups of people. They used to see event like this therefore it was no longer shocking for them.
One day they heard a big explosion. The whole area was surrounded by clouds of smoke. All the birds flew away from the lake in all directions and disappeared into the smoke. The birds were terrified. They hid on the roof of big church building. They hid their beaks in each other’s neck so close it would seem like they were trying to count each others heart beat. When the smoke cleared they saw the fire coming out from a very high building. Birds were looking from the roof at the road. “Oh! Look there” the bird said to the bird “How painful! Why are those people snatching the young child from that lady?” The child and his mom were both crying bitterly. “This is really a dance of human cruelty what was the fault of the newly born child. “This is all so cruel, and now this innocent baby is being hurt! Why are they doing this?
The birds had never seen this kind of human cruelty “We were very happy on the hills of Jordan, far from the hatred of human society”
One said to the other “And we used to see the beauty of nature”
“But it was you that said we should to leave that place…”
“Yes but at that time I did not know that humans were so cruel”
“Now we cannot go back to the hills because the winter season has started.”
“But I have not lost my hope yet, I think that all the human beings of the world might not be as cruel as this, just like some of us would be cruel some would be kind.” the bird who does not want to escape said.
“If we will fly to the West hopefully we will find a peaceful world there”
After a long discussion both agreed on this idea. Both the birds were imagining a dream world where people would love each other, animals, and birds too. With this sweet dream they arrived in Algeria to stay there for a short time and then flew off again. They saw an endless ocean that they had not seen before. They saw very pretty and colorful groups of birds coming from the other side. They were flying over the ocean. “Wow! Water animals are so quiet! If only human live like this” They thought remembering the scene of genocide in Jerusalem. They saw some more fragile birds coming from opposite side, and then their imagination ran wild. “Hopefully one day like these birds, people will be non-violent and there will be no murder and no killing”
They had traveled near about half of the way when they heard some noise coming from the ocean. They saw a small tourist ship at people singing and dancing. Suddenly the ship sunk. The birds were afraid to see the innocent travelers killed, but after some time the ship appeared again. The small brains of the birds could not understand this life protection technology. They thought “people of west are magicians we should return.” The bird said. “No absolutely not. Why not you say clearly that you are afraid to go there because of the violence” the other bird said. “No no no I am not afraid. Why do you think so?” The bird replied.
Both entered New York via Halyfox and Newfoundland. It was evening. Everywhere the noises of planes were echoing. The city life was very fast. People often were singing and dancing. Lives were passing by without tension. The People were very different here in comparison to the east. Brown or blonde, red hair, and red skinned. Ooh! Also there were machines! Machines were more than the people. There were so many factories there. What did these factories produce? What are those heavy and pointed things? What were they storing them for? They could not understand the use of those things. A large amount of men and women were involved to make these things. First they made them and then gathered them in a very high building. The birds could not understand anything about it. Both of the birds were very happy there. They visited almost all the cities of America and spent two more years there. In Washington they saw a very nice swimming pool. White people were swimming like fish there.
One day they were flying around the city. Suddenly they heard a big explosion. This explosion was greater than the one in Jerusalem. Both birds fainted. After a few hours when they came to their senses they found themselves on the roof of a building. They had no courage to go back to their temporary home. A flok of birds were coming from the other side of the roof. They were told that the biggest tower of the city was fired. The same place which was their temporary home. Fire and smoke was still coming out from that building. The birds told there that some one from across the ocean crashed the tower with airplanes. The city was covered in black smoke. Thousands of people were killed and thousands of them were wounded badly. The ambulances were coming and going loaded with dead and burnt bodies.
The birds were badly afraid; they began to think that they cannot save their lives here. This is not a peaceful place. They decided to go east from Jerusalem and then they were in a long journey again.
After a long time they arrived to “Chaman” famous for the production of grapes near to Afghan-Pak border. But they could not escape from the marsh of human hate. Suddenly they saw some air planes beside them. There were brown haired people were sitting in the planes. Exactly the same people like they had seen in the west. They were dropping some pointed and heavy thing on the ground and were changing cities and villages into graveyards. Now they understood the purpose of making and gathering those heavy and pointed things.
“You were saying that these people are peaceful, what you think about them now?” the bird said snugly.
“Oh!” the other bird replied sadly “I was so foolish I did not know how cruel these human beings are? They were making weapons to destroy themselves, to destroy other human being. They are so crazy.”
“They are not only cruel but the inventors of cruelty.”
They were feeling very tired. They did not find peace in any part of the world. They began to talk.
The first bird said; “Humans are the best creations of God, and they invented these weapons dangerous to their own livelihood.”
The other bird replied; “I think that behind this is their selfish nature, they want to live individually. What do you think?”
“Yeah that is true. If only they would have been made like us. They could work together, eat together, and have no boundaries within countries at all. Instead of inventing weapons of mass destructions they could have invented something to help to live a peaceful life.”
“Yes! You are right”
Both of the birds started to fly again. This time their destination was India but midway they were hit by unknown bullets. Actually they were hunted down by human cruelty. Their cry stirred in space. They fell down to the ground.
