Mein Blögchen für alles!

It was still dark, when he awoke. He knew, there were only a few minutes left, until the sun would rise on the easter horizon, dying the whole garden in a dark, golden color. He had seen it thousands of times before, but every morning he was fascinated of the slowly fading shadows, the wind moving the grass and the mist, that covered the whole garden in the early spring mornings. He loved hearing the birds singing their morning songs, and he knew most of them quite well. The redbreast on the other side of the garden, with its nice song, telling many different storys. The cock, calling the hens to get up and do their daily business.
Of course, there where other things living in this garden, too. The bushes, at the far end, close to the man-made stream, muttering to each other complaining about the wet underground.
He didn’t really like them, but he got used to them by now. In his early years, he had always dreamed of some kind of fire, burning down all these damn plants, while he stood in the center of the fire without being hurt, but being able to watch over all. But when getting older he became more serious, and tried to arrange with his environment.

Now the first sparkles of sunlight glowed on the neighbouring tree, which was slightly taller than he and therefore could catch the sunlight short before he did. A sudden blast surprised the trees, and so they couldn’t prevent some leaves falling down to earth, throwing shadows on the grass. It wasn’t, that they really needed these leaves at all. It was just the point, that they felt the leaves had been part of them, and just like they died, they knew they would die once the time had come.
But he for being a tree he was still young. He assumed to still have some hundreds of years left, until his power to draw water from earth, or to get energy from the sun, would fail.

So he still thought, when the human-beings came in the garden, carrying an axe in their hands. It probably was the last thing he ever thought. Who knows…

Created as a reply to “Learning English with the German School System” by Alex