The Talisman

The house was built near the ocean. It was a mansion and well built. That night l took control of the house and everything in it. When l stepped in, the lights went off. Initially I did not want the lights too reveal my dark and deep desires. The dreams of reasons produce nightmares.

The place is owned by a minister - of anti corruption, affectionately knows as the talisman of corruption. He was petty minded, grubby and a beer swilling pedant concerned only with his pathetic bourgeois existence bereft of any imagination. His ministry had become a domain of crafty, dishonest and dirty tricks. The day he assumed office, he promised the nation of an," uncompromising action against the growing corruption and injustice in our public life. Today he has become a self proclaimed emissary in defending subversive activities committed by those in his social cycles, and those with economic and political power. He would use lovely phrases and bombastic absurd speeches to cloud the findings of the investigating officers. He strove not for intellectual but emotional responses when caught in a web.

I could see vividly in the darkness. The drawings on the wall facing the east were very arresting and almost mathematical. The paintings portray David as he lunges back hurl his stone at Goliath. His entire body strains with the thrust of exertion. So determined is the youth that he even bites his lip. The colours are deeper, richer and more glowing. One could feel that he is in the same room with the person at the very moment he was painted. A longer look at the painting shows a quiet seriousness beneath its surface sweetness. The spiritual quality of this religious painting can not be described in greater details. But can best describe as grace, elegant and aristocratic. Perhaps the work reveals the talisman own desires.

There was a sudden gust of winds in the lounge. The waves caused the ground to shake and tremble. The strong winds would cause the most intense erosion on the floor tiles. The couple in the bedroom heard the awful noise and descended down the stairs to inspect. But only to find a baby on a sofa. The baby had a natural expression of an innocent face. They stood for a while, heads spinning as if they are watching the beauty and the beast.

The baby began to speak. As his words leave his lips they change their nature becoming more magnified. He said, I am here to tell you that; goodness, faithfulness, patience, and selfless love are rewarded: cruelty, deception, greed and foolishness are punished. Virtue is triumphant. The baby turned into a grotesque little man, and walked out of the house.

The atmospheric temperature in the lounge becomes extremely high. The talisman climbed to his bedroom. Up there, he saw a crocodile lying on his bed. It opened one friendly eye and looked at him. It said a dog can dance on a lion`s grave but that does not make it a lion. The talisman just looked down, seemingly unable to defend himself

To the talisman a crocodile was not just an animal, there is an artificial and extremely sophisticated hatred between the two. The hatred paints a picture with clashing colours, nervous movements and disturbing spatial vacuums. The relationship between the two species had assumed a form that of intricate puzzles.

I thought for a while about this puzzle. My reasoning was that a fish and a bird can love each other but where can two stay together. In contrast, a talisman and a crocodile can hate each other but can stay together. The can coexist under one roof. A crocodile can survive in aquatic and non aquatic environment .The talisman can take the crocodile as a pet and perhaps even tame it using his great social skills and finesse. At the same time a crocodile can be a watchman to monitor the talisman`s continual grasp for power and ridiculous pomp.

But one may ask who is much cleverer between the two? The problem in comparing the two is that the crocodile is secretive and rarely seen and have a reputation of being wily recluse. Whereas the talisman is talkative gentleman, intolerant, jealous and short tempered. He reveals about almost everything like a satellite.

Trying to foster unite between the two species can be a daunting task. But then another observation is that the crocodile at times rub shoulders with the highly voluminous red cobra - a red touching dangerous fellow- who when excited expand the skin of his neck into a hood. This friendship can be described as commensalism - a relationship that benefits a member of one species but does not harm a member of another species. (In the ecosystem)

The major difference between the talisman and crocodile is that the former is omnivorous while the latter is carnivorous. The talismans have an incredibly broad food tolerance as well as the ability to produce the necessary food. This gives him an advantage. Nevertheless, the crocodile has his own strength, the long tail form a powerful swimming and defense organ. It has a vast experience in doing business in deep waters. And many times it floats just below the water's surface, with only its eyes and nostrils above water, waiting for prey.

That night, l had to task the talisman to take care of the crocodile. He would therefore start defend the rights of the crocodile. In addition, he shall not inflict pain on it, such as delivering head wounds on it, to study how it recover from brain damage. But he can inspect why the crocodile is not changing colours and why its skin has remained coarse. Most importantly, the talisman can and must carefully study his own appearance especially the shape of his mouth and size of teeth in order to determine a proper estimate of him.

There is always a mutual beneficial relationship between two species that is unintended. I continued to reason. For instance, a squirrel buries a corn for its future use, but forgets where it put some of them, helping new oak trees to get started.

In deep waters parasitism is the game for coarse species. Parasitism is a relationship where one species feed on another, one benefits, one is harmed. However in most cases partnerships instead of parasitism have occurred mostly, for example, the micro - organisms that make it possible for termites to digest wood cannot live outside the termites body. Again, the microbes that help cows digest cellulose get a place to live in return. A clearer example is that some small fish are allowed to approach larger fish in order to eat parasites infecting their bodies. One fish gets a meal, the other a cleaning.

The most interest observation is that despite the huffing and puffing between the talismans and crocodile family , both are like Remoras; small fishes that attach themselves to sharks and whales with a sucker on their dorsal fin. They let the big fish take them for a ride, then get off to feed. The remoras does eat some of the sharks kill, but presumably the shark can spare a small portion

The unrefined nature of the environment needs toughness. Look at the chameleons that are famous for changing colours when disturbed or can blend in with the environment.. Then, again, some lizard like reptile, from the crocodile family which includes alligators and Caymans, can be easily affected by seismic waves.

The sharks have always called upon the species in the ecosystem to live in calm, harmony, balance and naturalism and desist from restless, discord, instability and bizarre fantasy. Sometime ago the rat family filed to take the heed and was chased away in a broad day light. The rats have remained notorious; they probably live everywhere that human live. They have adapted to human habitants and foods. The rats have always claimed that they are wiser enough to abandon a sinking ship. They assert to have a foresight but their audience always has an insights. And the rats firely woven web of lies gets exposed each time. However it is yet to be seen if rats are prodigious breeders.. it they begin to propagate now and in a year can produce several litters, each producing more family members. In that case they can reoccupy near the feeding trough for more milk and honey. There only danger is the rattlesnake.

The shark is not telling ail the other species that the water pond is bleeding dry.