The seeds

I remember the day, well kinda. I can’t tell you about the weather, or anything particular to that day. Nothing except perhaps for what I found. I was walking down the road. Which road? I dunna… it’s not important. So here I am walking when I feel my toe push something. I look down to see I am standing on the corner of a small leather sack. It’s brown and looks ordinary, well as ordinary as any small leather bag lying in the road. I stoop down and grab it up. There’s a draw string, with a small knot tied in it. I remember struggling with the knot. I can clearly see myself putting it to my teeth and pulling at the knot. I did get it open and inside I found something peculiar. Inside there was a small piece of paper cleverly folded to conceal a few small round objects. There didn’t seem to be any seams or creases. I fumbled it around in my hand a few times, tossing it and flipping it. Then I saw it. There was a tiny fold in one of the corners. I pulled at it and it instantly unfolded into a bowl shape, containing two small seeds. Under the seeds were the words, “Plant and Eat one. What was will no longer be and what will, will be” I crumbled the paper and put it in my pocket. I soon found myself in the park. I can’t remember why I was going there, but I remember being there. I was sitting on the grass. I was admiring the green from atop a small knoll. I found myself thinking that the very spot where I sat would be a great place for that picturesque singular tree. I pulled the paper out of my pocket and peered at the two small pea like seeds. “What the heck?” I told myself as I ripped up a piece of the sod, dug a small hole and tossed one in. I covered it back with the dirt and sent the chunk flying down the hill. I still had one seed left so, remembering the note, I tossed it into my mouth. I don’t think I chewed it, but I know I swallowed it. I remember saying, “Well that’s nothing” before I laid back to look at the clouds. There was a rabbit cloud, a snake cloud, and an elephant cloud. Then I dozed off. I’m not sure how long I slept, but when I awoke it was still daylight and the seed I had planted had grown into a huge bean stalk. It stretched far beyond my sight, way up into the clouds. There were many places to grab, so I did what any person, Jack included, would do. I climbed it. I climbed for what seemed to be hours, but I never looked back. I found myself at the end. There was nothing, just some clouds. I always wondered, so I reached out to see, and found that the clouds were hard. They were even hard enough to step on, which I found but testing it first hand. I sat down on the cloud and looked around. There didn’t seem to be much up here, so I waited. Soon enough I saw a cloud coming along, there was something on it. As it got closer, I began to make out what it was, it was so cute. It was a giant pink rabbit. It was bouncing around on its cloud. Soon it was close enough and it bounded onto my cloud and bounced all around me. “Stop please!” I told it, and surprisingly it stopped and looked at me. I crawled over to it, and landed a kiss on its, ear. After the kiss is bounced away back onto it’s own cloud and soon faded into the distance. It wasn’t long before the next cloud came. It came bearing a snake. This snake wasn’t dangerous and evil looking. Rather gentle and playful. It slithered around and soon enough I found myself kissing the snake before it too faded into the horizon. Then the last one came, it was a huge elephant. It was so big that it didn’t have space enough to even move. I drifted up to me in a spinning motion. I was only able to kiss it’s bum, but kiss it’s bum I did. But the elephant was different. They say elephants can remember everything, but it seems that they can talk too, for this elephant spoke, but what he had to say wasn’t cute or playful at all. He spoke in a deep serious voice. “This is not a dream, and you’re never going to wake up” I looked back to the bean stalk it was gone, and I was here to stay.