The Dandelion Seed

The Pappus of Dandelion Clock Seed is opened look liked a beautiful umbrella. Since that moment, the Dandelion Seed find out that he can fly with that small umbrella through the wind to where ever he wants; he can’t wait anymore to see every thing. His plant always tells him that he should be patient a little bit like other seeds because if he chooses wrong wind to fly, who knows where he will end up. But the seed is tired of all these conversation and he doesn’t want to become like other Dandelion around the lake. He wants to have more experience and see all things that none of those Dandelions saw before. He is silent during day and doesn’t talk too much, just staring to East and waiting for Sunrise.

He was born in the corner of forest and near the small lake and he was surrounded by a lot of tall trees. The early morning is his only happy time when Sun starts to rise then he can touch the sunlight. But most of daytime, the sunlight is blocked by the tall trees, and he hates those trees.

The seed hears a lot of stories about how big and beautiful the earth is and far away there is a land that called it desert which Sun is shining whole day and there are no trees to block the light.

Today the seed has different feeling because last night he decided that what he really wants. A yellow nightingale is flying around the lake and singing. The seed calles the nightingale and asks him about the wind. The bird says: when I was flying in early morning other side of forest I saw many black cloud that were coming to this direction and I think they carry rain and usually before rain here the north wind comes and goes to south. So if you want to see Sun you can fly with that wind. That wind is strong and power full he can carries you to far away from here. But I should tell you something, these wind some time goes so far and end up to desert. No body can live there except Sun and sands.

The seed can’t believe him. He thinks every place with Sun will be paradise and it doesn’t matter if anybody else can live there or not. The day passed and in the afternoon weather becomes windy and cloudy. The seed opens his umbrella, the plant becomes upset and tells him that it is not a time, but he says that he can’t wait anymore and by one move he starts flying fast and wild.

After while traveling, he looks at the wing and asks: How do you become this strong and power full and where are we going?

The wind says: I’m the son of warmth and coldness and the warmness of south is calling me and I should go there to cool the desert. We call it “The Golden Land” because we can fly freely every where and play with sands and touch sunlight and everything is look like gold.

The seed asks: Do you know what will be happened next?

The wind says: Nobody knows because every body goes there never come back. I think they don’t want to come back and they love there.

Seed 8is happy and bright, he can see the lake and forest from this altitude and he also can see the Golden Land in far away. The seed and wind are flowing whole night until morning. In the morning the seed find himself in the middle of huge golden land. There is nothing except Sun and sands as the wind told him before. The wind is becoming slow and slow and the seed is getting closer to the land. Sun is shining and makes the wind weaker and weaker until the wind totally is stopped and the seed is caught between two red stones. In the shadow of those stone, the seed can’t see Sun again and he becomes upset. The seed asks the stones: could you please move a little bit I want to see Sun?

Both stones start laughing and then tell the seed: we can’t move. We stock here from many years ago and nobody can escape from this desert.

The seed says: then how can I see Sun?

They say: you should wait for another wind to take you out of here.

Time comes and goes fast and week after week but there is no wind except some light breezes and they weren’t strong enough to take away the seed. After many days the seed lost his umbrella and that means he lost a chance of moving and flying. Week later of loosing umbrella, the seed hears some noises belong to a caravan of people who are crossing desert. They come closer and hours they arrive near the stones and start to make a camp around those stones. One of those people has a huge water jug and he puts it in the shod of two stones to keep it safe and cold -directly above the seed-. The wall of jug is wet and cold and the seed starts feeling something new that never had before. Something inside the seed starts growing and that feel is enjoyable, natural, lovely, fresh and kind of reborn. In the next morning the caravan pack every thing and move, but they forget to bring the jug. The seed is grown fast by water inside the jug and now he has some roots and those roots can get inside the wall of jug and the seed feels so alive and every day his roots get deeper and deeper inside the jug. After several days the seed is became a grown plant and he is still growing ad becoming taller and bigger until he passes the stones and even becomes taller than them, and now he can see Sun again. The combination of Sun and the water inside the jug gives him energy, happiness, power, etc.

The week after that, the water is finished and the jug hasn’t freshness anymore and becomes completely dry, hard and painful. Since that the plant starts to scare and he can’t enjoy Sun, he can’t move and grow either. In fact, the light of Sun increases the heat and makes every thing dry faster. The plant is feeling alone, he remembers his own childhood plant and now he can understand what that plant was saying. The branches of plant are drying one by one and he is loosing his flexibility. He doesn’t like Sun any more he doesn’t like that Golden Land or any of those shiny sands. He knows his life is almost over and he isn’t even grown up enough to have his own seeds.

One day morning, the strong wind comes to that area and a small happy seed traveles with that wind. That seed is stocked between those stone in the same way. The plant looks at the seed and for moment he feels useful and starts to tell the whole story for the new seed. Then he helps the seed to get out of there and tells him that he should get faraway as much as he can to the other green land. The plant uses whole his power to pick up the seed with his leafs and put it over the head of stones then the new seed can fly again with next wind. The plant looses most of his leafs to do this import for the new seed but he is happy because at least for one moment in his life he does something useful to puts his memory in the whole universe. Next day the new strong wind comes and brings the new seed with himself and promises the plant that he will take care of it. The new seed is going far and far and becomes invisible and after that the last leaf of plant is fallen down and his life becomes over … Written by Mohammad Hosseini