The Blue Tree

By Tillmann Rautenberg

Guilt killed humanity. Black roots cover the sky, a black fruit torments and feeds off billions of entrapped souls.
Two blue shining beings, a man and a woman, emerge from the darkness. They each go their own way in this silent new world, trying to rekindle hope in a hopeless world. Eventually, every single one of us, has to find the answer to their own version of this question: You are all alone in the dark. What do you see?

• Language: English
• Publisher: epubli
• Release date: Oct 28, 2021
• ISBN: 9783754914960

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The Blue Tree

Mother

Pull

Roots

Sleep

Dream

Assumption

Alley

Fire

Tear

Drops

Wall

Flood

Crest

Wrath

Ocean

Break & Surge

Rain

Morning

Legend

Revelation

Baby

Mother

Nature is rich and plentiful. She offers the blessings of her space to each and everyone, every human may walk in her gardens free and for all the time of their life.

Nature then became surprised of how much space the humans took.

As by their origin, the humans are a product of nature and she held no grudge to her offspring. Their demanding personality was to be accepted.

The humans first invented the word „evil" to describe their very own participation in natures realm but she found this description to be empty and lacking true revelation of the human behaviour.

Yet, by their own feelings, the humans remained „evil".

As a mother, nature became sad and sorrowful. She had witnessed the invention of „guilt" and the system that built upon it. She could not fathom humanity anymore, as the human act was by her design but the interpretation of her intention had been corrupted by … her very own design.

As a mother, nature felt „guilt" for the first time.

As too many humans had died of unnatural causes, she withered of pain.

Humanity never noticed her disappearance as they had never known of her existence. Her gardens remained lush, as they had been intentioned to be.

A black fruit remained, a lingering offspring of mothers guilt. It never came to blossom, its malnourished, unloved and unwanted life had been forgotten.

It took lonesome root in the garden, creeped shapelessly in every direction, an empty shell of no purpose and intent.

As it branched into the human fields and civilisations, as it touched its only but most distant kin, it became aware.

Awareness sparked existence into the void, awareness ignited hatred as it had been awakened without a mother to be found, awareness poured doom upon humanity. The black fruit had grown into the blackest tree, nothingness encrusted by a plain bark, a hollow being that could only grow further, as it found its first but endless source of nourishment in the „evil and „guilt of humankind.

Kin, it thought, oh Kin, it contemplated, I will devour you.

Pull

None were aware.

It happened neither slowly, nor fast.

Why, it was just a feeling. Another tired day.

„As you may have noticed it's a wonderful day today."

„Yes."

„A wonderful day is a good reason to go outside, where it is, frankly, very wonderful."

„Yes."

„I don't need to shine a light on any further reasons to go outside, because that will do the light of the sun on its own. I won't tell you how much your room needs the fresh air of behind the closed window, because the urge to breathe will push you to that