True Story of Forked Love

A long time ago, before man set foot on earth for the first time, vices and virtues kept floating around and were bored, not knowing what to do.

One day, all the vices and virtues held a get-together to liberate themselves from monotony. Creativity came up with an idea, "Let's play hide and seek!"

All of them liked the idea and immediately Madness shouted, "I will start counting and you all go hiding!" Madness leaned against a tree and started to count, "One, two, three..."

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 splitting!

And Madness continued to count: .... "seventy nine, eighty, eighty one..."

By this time, all the vices and virtues had 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 for Love to hide!

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!" Laziness was the first to be found, because it 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. Jealous of Love, Envy whispered to Madness, "There you cannot see but Love is hiding in the rose bush."

Madness grabbed a wooden pitch fork and stabbed wildly at the rosebush. 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 pitch fork. "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 as his guide.


PASSION MAY BE BLIND; BUT TO SAY THAT LOVE IS, IS A LIBEL AND A LIE ….H.Davis
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LOVE IS NEVER LOST.
IF NOT RECIPROCATED,
IT WILL FLOW BACK
AND SOFTEN AND PURIFY HEART
… Washington Irving