Soul
Bird
~ Michal Snunit~
Deep down,
inside our
bodies,
lives the soul.
No one has ever seen it,
but we all know it's
there.
Not only do we know it's there,
we know what's in it,
too.
Inside the soul,
right
in the very middle of it,
there is a bird standing on one foot.
This is
the soul bird.
It feels everything we feel.
When someone hurts our
feelings,
the soul bird runs round and round in pain
When someone loves
us,
it hops and skips
up and down
backwards and forwards
When someone calls our
name,
it listens carefully
to hear what kind of call it is.
When someone is angry with
us,
it curls itself into a ball
and is silent and sad.
And when someone hugs
us,
the soul bird, deep down inside,
grows and grows
until it almost
fills us.
That's how good it feels when someone hugs us
Deep down, inside, lives
the soul.
No one has ever seen it,
but we all know it's there.
Never,
never has a person been born..
who didn't have a soul.
It sparks the
moment we are born
and never leaves us-
not even once-
for as long as
we live.
It's like the air that people breathe
from the moment they are
born
until the time they die.
-Do you want to know what
the soul bird is made of?
Well, it's really quite simple:
it's made of
drawers.
These drawers can't be opened just like that-
because each is
locked with its own special key!
Only the soul bird can open its
drawers.
How?
Ah, that's quite simple
too:
with its other foot.
-The soul bird stands one
one foot,
and with its other foot..
(tucked under its wing when it's
resting)
it turns the key to the drawer it wants to open,
pulls the
handle, and lets everything inside- out!
-Because there is a drawer
for everything we feel,
the soul bird has many, many drawers:
one for
being happy and one for being sad;
one for being jealous and one for being
content;
one for being hopeful and one for being hopeless;
one for being
patient and one for being impatient.
There is also one for hating and for
being loved.
There is even a drawer for being lazy and one for being
vain.
And there is a special drawer for your deepest secret -
which is
hardly ever opened.
There are other drawers too -
whatever drawers you
dream of.
Sometimes you can tell the
bird..
which keys to turn and which drawers to open.
Sometimes the bird
will choose especially for you.
Like, when you want to be silent
and order
the soul bird to open the silence drawers.
But the bird decides all
by itself
to open the talking drawer
and you talk and talk
without even
wanting to.
You want to listen
patiently,
but the soul bird opens his impatience drawer
and you become
impatient.
Sometimes you get jealous
without meaning to.
And sometimes you get in the way when you only want to
help.
The soul bird does not always do what it is told
and gets things in
a mess.
By now you've understood
that everyone is different
because there's a difference soul bird deep
inside.
The bird opens the happiness drawer each day
pours happiness into
your body
and you will be happy.
But if the bird opens the
anger drawer
he will be angry
until the bird closes the drawer behind
him.
A bird who feels
bad
will open up the drawers
which make you feel bad.
A bird who feels
good
will open up the drawers
which make you feel good.
Most important is to
listen to the soul bird,
because sometimes it calls us and we don't hear
it.
This is a shame- it wants to tell us about ourselves.
It wants to tell
us about the feelings
that are locked up inside its drawers.
Some of us hear it all the
time.
Some almost never.
And some of us hear it
only once in a
lifetime.
That's why it'a good idea
-
maybe late at night when everything is quiet -
to listen to the soul
bird
deep down inside us.
