Lost in Amazing Land

By: Phichachu

When the sun went down and the moon began to say hello, there was a man sitting in the old bench near his house. He sat alone without someone accompanies him during the silent night. It seemed that the old man enjoyed the atmosphere of the night. He smiled then suddenly turned sad then suddenly smiled again. There was no one could read what’s he thought about. Slowly he moved his body and he began to lie down on the long and comfortable bench. 

            “lary..lary.. Come here….come here baby” a beautiful voice suddenly called the old man

     He tried to find the source of the voice but he couldn’t find it. Instead of finding the source of the voice, he found a big door in front of him. It seemed that the door forced the old man to open it.  Slowly he stepped closer to the door and he began to identify it. The door was not a common door.  It was a big door.  Eagerly, the old man touched the handle and he tried to move it up and down. The door could not be opened. The old man tried hardly to open it. But he couldn’t.  He still hardly tried to open it but the door was perfectly locked. Fortunately, he saw a key in the floor. He picked the key and he used it to open the big door.  Finally the door was opened….

            “What place is it?” He said to himself

     He saw a wonderful place. He saw a place he never imagined. He saw a green very green land and it was very beautiful. Slowly he stepped further and began to explore the wonderful place. The old man couldn’t blink his eyes even once. His eyes kept looking every details of the place. He saw many kinds of beautiful flowers, he saw a group of animals eating grass, and he could feel the wind blow his face. All he felt was peacefulness in that wonderful place as if he was in a heaven. He said to himself that he wanted to live there forever. He stepped further and further. He smiled all the time while walking in the grassland. As far as he stepped his foot on the grass, he heard birds singing as a beautiful as choir in church he used to hear. He tried to figure out what place he was in. His eyes kept looking around and he saw a board on the grass. 

            “AMAZING LAND” the old mean read the board on the grass

     He discovered that he was in Amazing Land. No wonder if the place was called Amazing land because all the things there were amazing. The old man amazed with everything in that place. The sky was so blue, the weather was cool, and the scenery was very beautiful. But suddenly the old man was shocked by a voice he heard from nowhere.

            “Help me…help me” the voice calling out 

Again he heard another voice..

            “ Go away..go away” 

Then old man was very scared because the voices kept calling out all the time. He ran..ran away at the same time he was covering his ears with his both hand. Unfortunately, he was stumbled and fell to the ground. When he tried to get up, suddenly there was a stranger called the old man.

            “Hey you..” the stranger called the old man

            “ Who are you, why you here?”

            “I..I’m lary..I..I don’t know why I’m here..I just..” the old man answered in a trembling voice

            “ You should not come here.. just go away”  the stranger said in high tone.

            “But..but I want to know more about this place…please let me stay here. I promise I won’t make any trouble in this wonderful place” The old man begging.

            “ You just tell lie..I won’t believe you” 

The old man was very confused because the stranger seemed hate him so much. 

            “Please….let me stay here…I want to be here forever…I never found a place like this before. What should I do to make me stay here forever? Should I pay for it? Just tell me” The old man insisted.

            “ A person like you do not deserve to stay here..just go..go”

            “Plese..let me stay here..please please..’

            “Go away..you don’t deserve to be here”

The stranger dragged the old man to the door with a word “EXIT” written in it.

            “Please…please.. Let me stay here” the old man still begging.

            “If you want to stay here, you should find the answer by yourself…now go away don’t even dare to come here again”   

The stranger pulled the old man’s collar and he dragged him to the “exit” door..

            “NO..NO!!!!!!...

            “Lary…lary..wake up..wake up..wake up” a woman voice suddenly appeared.

The old man soon realized that he was only dreaming. He looked at his wife who just woke him up. He hugged her and he cried.