Sand and blood

He felt the smell of blood coming out from his nose, its taste on his throat. Blood that was dripping and mixing to the sand. He felt weak, he was dizzy and very injured, he saw distorted images and the buzzing in the ears mixed itself to the anger whines of his aggressors that were feeling pleasure in the violence.

“Don't hurt him or then U.N. won't give us political support if we show disrespect to the human rights” - the leader of the opposition said. And he turned to the injured man: “It doesn't mean you don't desert it, but for us is more interesting taking your place and restoring the republic than seeing you dead. We can provide it later”.

The Arab Spring had come and the king, that got the power through a coup d'état, was falling. His father had been the king, but he was murdered by the revolutionaries that proclaimed the republic.

The reign of the young and gorgeous king haven't last so much and he didn't feel motivated for this. He always felt that love was rubbish because since he was a teenager he could have the odalisques he wanted thanks to his beauty and power. Having a female company had never been a problem and he thought that it would never be. Untill the moment he found one and felt in love for true, intensively. As she had a bad reputation face to the society, he promised to run away with her for them to feel this feeling together.

It wasn't what happened. He got scared of what he was feeling, scared of ending up committing a huge mistake and giving it all up. He tried to convince himself that she was just his first passion of the never-ending summer and decided to dismiss her. He was about to become the king and needed a first lady of his high level.

The coup d'état and the marriage with the international actress had come, as well as the power but... not the happiness. He was the one before that woman but it wasn't the same. He saw a new world, wider, but he understood it as a curse because he wasn't the same one he was: he felt more vulnerable and his loss of security and psychological instability worried his allies.

After a diplomatic event the king started to show he wasn't fine. It was as if the craziness had got him. He decided to get rid of the knowledge and surrender himself to luxury once again. Conducted by Indian drivers and male chauvinist humor TV show female assistants from the East Europe, he burned the books, the wisdom, what he was feeling and was sexually devoured by the woman that made the Indian drivers to feel envy. This kind of self-exorcism session haven't helped because the king was getting worse and worse, more depressive and self-destructive.

The wave of the Arab Spring came to the Maghreb via Twitter and Facebook. It was a revolutionary wave against the tyranny and the fact of taking the power by non-democratic ways incited the opulent opposition to wish to take the power in a more nice way through United States and United Nations eyes. The king was very depressed to refrain any kind of uprising against his government and then, he lost the support of his allies.

Allies that changed their political support. Allies that gave his head to the revolutionaries group that beat him up in front of everybody. Nothing else mattered; losing the power, losing blood, losing his life. He had never felt in love so deeply and he hadn't lost any women yet to learn how to deal with his depression. His regret was stronger because he dismissed her. He loved Sakineh.

World peace

The Miss Universe judge asked Miss USA what was her biggest dream. She answered: the world peace.

Perhaps it was just a cliché answer for her to be considered a kind human being and win the Miss Universe contest. Perhaps it was really a sincere wish of someone who believes that someday this dream may come true, even though she knew it was humanly impossible. Who will ever know? Will we be alive when the world peace reign on the Earth?

It is funny that some words have nothing to do with their root, right? For example: humanity has synonyms like kindness and benevolence. Ok, as if the humans were naturally kind and benevolent.

Human beings are magnificent creatures. Unlike other animals, they do not need to hunt and use their fingernails for this purpose; they developed a high level of intelligence that made possible to control their animal instincts. Perhaps because of this, it sounds offensive to call humans as animals.

Humans kill other animals to eat them. Vegetarians repudiate such act. Humans kill themselves not in order to eat them, even though there are rare cases of canibalism. But humans kill for power, for pleasure, for wealthy, for fun or to maintain their “honor”.

Humans destroy themselves and the nature. The Earth have already shown the reflexions of the human intervention on it and shows its angry with floods, droughts, erosions that culminate in the loss of human and wild lives.

The planet is already fed up. Humans are so arrogant that they say they believe in a God that created a world for them to destroy freely all He built. They are so arrogant that they think they can sell vacancies in the heaven after their pathetic predictions about the end of the world.

But it was not necessary a meteor to collide against the Earth raising a cloud of dust that blocks the sunlight and kills the humankind with a new glacial age. We will still have dogs, cats, flowers, trees, butterflies, all the animals, all the insects and all the plants to enjoy one more sunny day.

The dogs howl to the moonlight. They miss a friend. The cockroaches dance samba on the wreckages. They will have organic material to eat for decades. The end of the world had come... for the human beings. The Earth is still intact trying, by it own, rebuild itself after all the destruction humankind have caused.

The world peace had come. The world had reached the fine line of the unbearable. Humans destroyed them by themselves with their chemical and biological weapons. No way humanity was a synonym of kindness and benevolence.

The last men the remained on the Earth were fighting among them for the right of becoming the King of the World and enjoy the little water and food that had lasted. So, one of them took a gun and shot all the others that had remained alive. He was the only one man on the Earth. There were nobody to serve him, to admire him, to feed him. He went crazy due to the starvation and due to the disturbing loneliness. Then, he did the last discharge of a gun that the Earth could ever hear. He shot his own head. The last man on the Earth had died.

Finally the world peace was achieved when all the humans were died.

Feel the fear

They know about your desire of changing and getting something better but if you are afraid, they will use it against you.

Hey, little child. What is that defiance? Do you want to be hit by a sandal? Do you want to be grounding in your room? Keep behaving this way and you will not be allowed to watch TV and access the internet or I will lock you in a dark room.

Hey, woman. Who do you think you are talking to? I am the one who fund you, the kids and the bills in this house. How would be your life without me? You have no way to fund yourself. You have no way to fund the kids. They need a father to feed them and they would starve if you take care of them because you do not even have a job. You are coward, you are weak. You believe easily in the stories I tell you about everything being different. And do not you dare reporting me to the police or I will beat you up once again.

Hey, ordinary worker. Do you know who you are talking to? Since when do you think you have rights? I am the one who pay your salary so if you keep not behaving properly I will fire you. By the way, do you know how many people come here everyday leaving with us their résumés? Do you know how the job market is nowadays? What do you have to offer? Are you major in what, High School? I can hire more efficient and willing workers paying a shorter salary than yours. Work properly without complaining. And keep it on mind: if someday you leave us, and I do believe it will not be happen, you will need our references for being hired in your new job and we will enjoy telling how mediocre you are.

Hey, sinner. Do you think you can escape from the Lord Laws? Do you think you can hide all your sins from Him? You will not reach Heaven after dying. Dying is unavoidable and He will punish all the sinners throwing them into the Hell’s Fire. Do you really want to burn in the eternal flame? Do you want to feel His fury? Join us, we can save your soul. Convert yourself to our religion, pray, let your material goods behind and He will forgive you because he is merciful.

Hey, pseudo-socialist revolutionary. What do you think you are? What power do you think you have? I have powerful lawyers. I have gotten certificate after finishing college. I have the power to alienate your people with favors, popular shows and lies. They believe me. They may not trust on me but they always vote for me. Trying to show the truth to them. And do not you dare being against me or I may lose control. Keep behaving this way and I will ask someone to kill you.

Shut up! You are supposed to do what I say without making questions. You know you need me. You know you are nothing without me. I have nothing to lose but you do. You are too much coward to attempt changing something. You only dare defying me, but it is nothing more than this. I see fear and lack of self-confidence in your eyes. I see you are too much powerless to carry on with your threats.

Either you shut up and do the thinks in the way I want or dare, go ahead with your ridiculous threats. I want to see if you will have the courage to deal with the consequences. I want to see if you have the courage to change.