Love and Madness
A long time ago, before the world was created and
humans set foot on it for
the first time, virtues and vices floated around and
were bored, not
knowing what to do. One day, all the vices and virtues
were gathered
together and were more bored than ever.
Suddenly, Ingenious came up with an idea: "Let's play hide and seek!"
All of them liked the idea and immediately Madness shouted: "I want to
count, I want to count!" And since nobody was crazy
enough to want to seek
Madness, all the others agreed. Madness leaned
against a tree and started to
count: "One, two, three..."
As Madness counted, the vices and virtues went hiding. Tenderness hung
itself on the horn of the moon, Treason hid in a pile of garbage. Fondness
curled up between the clouds and Passion went to the centre of the earth.
Lie said that it would hide under a stone, but hid at the bottom of the
lake, whilst Avarice entered a sack that he ended up
breaking.
And Madness continued to count: "... seventy nine, eighty, eighty
one..."
By this time, all the vices and virtues were already
hidden - except
Love. For undecided as Love is, he could not decide
where to hide. And this
should not surprise us, because we all know how
difficult it is to hide
Love
.
Madness: "...ninety five, ninety six, ninety seven..." Just when Madness
got to one hundred, Love jumped into a rose bush
where he hid. And Madness
turned around and shouted: "I'm coming, I'm
coming!"
As Madness turned around, Laziness was the first to be found, because
Laziness had no energy to hide
Then he spotted Tenderness in the horn of the moon
Lie at the bottom of
the lake and Passion at the centre of the earth
One by one, Madness found them all - except Love. Madness was getting
desperate, unable to find Love
Envious of Love, Envy whispered to Madness
"You only need to find Love, and Love is hiding in the rose bush."
Madness grabbed a wooden pitch fork and stabbed
wildly at the rose bush.
Madness stabbed and stabbed until a heartbreaking cry made him stop.
Love appeared from the rose bush, covering his face with his hands.
Between his fingers ran two trickles of blood from
his eyes
Madness, so anxious to find Love, had stabbed out Love's eyes with a
pitchfork. "What have I done! What have I done!" Madness shouted.
"
I have left you blind! How can I repair it
And Love answered: "You cannot repair my eyes
.
But if you want to do something for me, you can be
my guide."
And so it came about that from that day on, Love is
blind and is always
accompanied by Madness
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Madness grabbed a wooden pitch fork and stabbed
