PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

Jesus Fernando Sierra Rodriguez

Raul Lozano Lozano

Back in the days of the First Age, when Chaos and Order ruled the universe, there existed an animal that could foresee devastation. Its life felt as a torment because as little as it was, it had no power over the great problems that he saw in its dreams that came to reality in one “amjanba” or as it is said in this modern language a “month” after the first dream. This animal could fit in a human hand and worked hard digging its tunnels. The little mole kept digging and digging all day and night, trying to shelter itself from the disasters he foresaw. Only a few other animals in the land knew about its existence, and some others just never imagined such a creature. For some time the mole had no dreams about what the future departed so he started to go back to the surface each day a little more. After an “amjanba” the mole made it to the surface and began to speak to those animals who knew him such as the wise owl, the ferocious tiger and the majestic lion and began to investigate about the happenings of the surface. As he talked with each of the animals the mole realized that each of his predictions came true, as he knew they would. His animal friends corroborated his predictions with facts and told him that to avoid such disasters they needed his help more than ever. However, the mole stopped having his dreams and his predictions were no more, the mole was worried and his friends thinking that there was no more danger left him alone. It was only a week later that he received another prediction while sleeping. In this dream the mole foresaw that there would be a great flood, a flood that would devastate their food supply. The mole knew that he had to warn the others and as such rapidly went to find the animals of the surface so as to spread the word. When the mole found them, they were relaxing around a churning stream. Frantic, the mole explained that the next month there would be a flood and that their food supply would be damaged and to avoid any damage, they needed to start moving someplace else. The animals were skeptic about the prediction since it had been some time since the mole had any dreams that predicted danger and some others didn’t even knew the creature. Some uproar began to stress the surface and then came the friends of the mole. Just by saying a single sentence the animals looked at each other and began to move to higher grounds in the far part of the surface. It was until then that the mole realized that they commanded respect because of their qualities. An amjanba later the great flood came and with it, a few animals were taken, but most of them survived. That day the mole learned that some small things can be done alone, but by working together greater things may be achieved.