The Cry of the Guqin
Sitting in the middle of the darkness, only the crying of the guqin strings could be heard, playing with the hope of being able to communicate with his beloved.
The guqin, besides being a traditional instrument, was also a tool to communicate with the spirits, that is why he played that instrument every night until his fingers bled, the man he loved had died several years ago.
Even though years had passed since he started to play, he never received an answer.
One night, not unlike the others, the man was in the guqin, but this time he received an answer. The man proceeded to ask the ghosts for his name, age and cause of death, but the soul did not know the answer to any of the questions.
-You play the guqin every day, who are you looking for?- said the ghost.
-My love- the man answered.
-Wow!, I really envy that person, still has someone who loves him even after death.
Not like me, a soul that doesn't even know if someone loved him while he was alive.-
-Maybe like me, that person has not found you yet- said the man.
The soul remained silent a few seconds before responding.
-Then, I’d rather say no one ever loved me.-
-Why?!- Asked the man.
-It's very sad to see you play the guqin every day in vain. Even a soul like me, when I see you like that, makes my chest hurt. I want to cry but I have no tears to do it.
-If someone in life loved me, I would prefer that he forgets me...
I would rather prefer that he could forget our story, in that way he could fall in love with someone else and could live happily the rest of his life.- said the lonely soul.
-I can’t forget him... I have kept everything of that person in my heart and I will never forget it in my whole life. - said the man with his gaze lost in a fixed spot on the wall and tears running down his cheeks.
Seeing the man cry, the soul remains silence.
This is how he sees it every day, playing the guqin and not hearing an answer again and again, the only thing he could do was staying by his side and talk to him from time to time.
The man never lost hope of seeing his beloved again, if in this life he could not see him again, he hoped to be with him in another life.
After a while, that soul stopped appearing, what the man did not know is that that soul had been given another opportunity, and that perhaps he would not have to wait to reincarnate to see again the love of his life.
By Maria Camila Pinzón, Step 11
