Monday 21 October 2013

The tree

In the late midnight while full moon shinning through my window, my late grandfather sat next to me start telling stories....

In the late autumn season, a flock of hornbills flew to thick forest to start spawning season. They will find their mate and do their work.

A pair of hornbills find their new home at great shady tree which people called moonglowlilly tree. These hornbill start making their nest using some twigs and hays around the tree. The new nest locate at highest peak of the tree, so they can see moon shine bright through their eyes and wake up while the sun still at the east.

A few seconds later, the mother tell her mate, its time to lay eggs. The father get ready to find enough foods for their future kids and also his wife. A while later, the father comes with their prey : a young goatling still fresh blood leaking through his beak.

The father realized, they will have seven little hornbill. The mother look unconscious and weak after minutes struggling her life. The father raise hands and look to the sky and thank goodness for the protectorship of their whole life.

After a fortnight, the eggs seem to start murmuring to each other and the mother look happily while give high five to the father

hellyeah darling

Seven big juicy healthy little horbills singing and dancing with each other in small shady nest made by their parent. The father sit next to his darling join their kids singing a song teman tapi mesra by ratu now keeps playing on the radio.

The kids start playing outside nest, with their young feather, they can jump from branch to other branches. The parent keep smiling now their kid starting act like other normal young hornbill. The father always act as their protector and the mother keep give them little extra advice and scold them when anything went wrong.

Every night and days the mother worrying about their safety, maybe some raccoon attack their kids or the owls hunt their prey maybe human also will harm them. Every second the father worrying about the food and want everything are okay.

Day and day pass, the little young hornbill start flying to the lower branches and playing hide and seek until the lowest branch. They seem like able to care their own self but still not too brave to fly to the next tree. The parent just hanging out in the nest in between feel the hot coffee

Darling....
i hope someday our kids will be like us 
pretty and dashing

yeah... i hope too
i know they will learn to the will of nature 
how this world work
how to manage them self and surviving the obstacles

darling...
i want ask you something

yes dear...

Did you think that someday our kids will recognize us when they into outer world?
you know... hornbill like us...
when we are in semi-adult phase...
we are allow live on our self and joining other flocks
we will separate to our beloved kids in anytime right now..

Darling...
we know its will happen in our life..
kids and their parent not always be together
i mean...
someday, they will have their will to live on adventure life and find a new mate and live like us
we as their parent must accept the nature of live or how this world want us do....

Dad... mom... 

Look our child just come back darling.

The seven young hornbill just back home from their playing time. They seem hungry and tired.

Dad...
is kfc around here
dad.. come on...
i'm sick eating the same food everyday

yes dad... yes dad... kfc... kfc... kfc.....

The kids keep saying the word until the mother 

Okay children... 
right now... i just cooked the beef steak... before we go to hunt kfc.
me and your father want to finish all of this steak...
so you guys just wait outside... okay....

oh... mommmm... (all)




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