Love 101
He stood, watching me from a distance. I could just make out the outline of his shadow. It was as if he was there and not there. I freaked.

I rose the sword in my right hand and yelled, "TO GOD", and he shook his head, left to right, and whispered, "Too much". So I lowered the sword to my side and dropped it on the ground next to my feet.

Next, I rose the book in my left hand and read a few lines. I looked up at him and with an inquisitive look in my face asked, "But if he did all this, why is there evil"? I looked again at the pages, but this time the words were jumbled and I could not read any of them. He fell to his knees and shook his head again, this time with his arms aimed into the heavens. "Not enough", he whispered, again.

I sat on the ground and searched the immediate area for something to oblige the shadow, but there was nothing within my reach that I deemed important enough to quell his need to reach something within me to satisfy him.

I looked at each thing: The sword, the book, a painting by an unknown artist magnificently crafted with light and dark paints, a wooden puzzle of circles horseshoes and a long stick, three pieces of glass from three different eye glasses, a pencil and a piece of paper.

What did it all mean, I wondered. I had lifted each to him with the same result. But now, he knelt, it seemed almost in agony. As if my answers were killing him slowly from within. I stood and looked at each thing from out side the area, within the shadows but no where near the shadow that stood watch over me and my domain. I heard a whimper from him and as I turned to look, he was prostrate, his right cheek on the ground.

I rushed directly to the mind of the area and I heard another whimper and as I turned to look, this time his left cheek was on the ground. But still, nothing. No clue stood out or called to me. It was as if what was necessary was not there. There was something missing, but I could not make it out.

[The shadow lifted his body from the ground and watched again.]

Still, nothing came to me, but suddenly, the objects began to make sense.

[The shadow lifted one leg up and he was kneeling on one knee.]

I moved the objects around the area, placing the book in the center, moving the sword to the shadow.

[The shadow stood.]

I took the painting and stood it up on itself and I took the puzzle in my right hand. I took the three pieces of glass in my left hand and placed them one on top of the other, and placed them on my forehead and closed my eyes.

"You cannot force knowledge on yourself unless you are prepared for it", he whispered again.

So, I placed the glasses separately on the ground around me, for what he said had made sense. He laughed out loud and said in a boisterous voice, "Finally you can take to the world and learn of love", and the shadow vanished into the light.