When Lullabies Can No Longer Be Heard.

By Viviana Gomez

The gods were so disappointed with the humans they had created that decided to finish them off. But one more chance would be given to the leaders of the people to save the human being. They had to show one fact, just one, why people would worth their existence. On the day marked to destroy the world a crowd gathered to see their leaders fight for them. One by one, they gave magnificent speeches, justifying their actions, even the most cruel ones, and they argued with great hability and  reasoning, the decision of every war. They exposed their achievements in science and technologies, glorifying their power, social order and beautiful cities with pride.

But nothing convinced the gods, and getting even more disappointed with the speeches they decided to finish the humanity. But then a baby started to cry in the crowd. The mother in an apologizes attitude asked for one more minute to calm down her baby and the gods agreed. So she sang a beautiful lullaby with such love without care about anything else but her baby, even though the world would end a minute later, that the gods were moved, and decided that the humans worth another chance. The humanity  will end -they declared- when lullabies can no longer be heard.