Twin Fireflies

Twin fireflies

See there – on the meadow! Two fireflies: one burning red, the other – a soft green. They have come out to honor their round mother – the Moon. See how they spiral upwards? They twist and turn around one another. Such a graceful dance, their flames engulf the surrounding air and you feel suffocated, because you cannot look away. Your emotions disappear, your senses concentrate. You can only see and feel the fireflies. Ah, now they fly in parallel circles and create big rings in the air. You can feel they want to paint the sky, even the Moon in red and green.

            Another firefly appears. It’s blue, what a cold color. It wants to destroy the warm fireflies. It circles and twists around them. The air gets colder and colder. The green firefly cannot endure. It falls, but the red one hurries to it and begins to fly in complicated and unending patterns. The green twin stops dropping and shoots high in the air. The green flame burns hotter and the cold-blue firefly weakens. Its patterns stop and the blue fly flaps desperately with its wings. Then the red one comes back joins its twin and they both charge the green one as they swing by him.

            The blue firefly is defeated and falls to the ground. But the twins do not let it fall. They support it on their flames. The heat changes the cold one. Slowly he turns purple and flies away in graceful patterns. Legends say that the now warm purple firefly flew off to the Moon, so he can forever take care of it, give it warmth with its beautiful dance.