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March 10, 2022

A pink swan

Cristobal Cisternas

   A sunny day is very hot like summer, in the lake from the desert it is the driest land, without plants for a long time the rains never came to those places, white swans live in the lake, but then we will soon travel to the south. The swans suspected in rumour, the family had that having one is strange for someone to appear albino, but it is pink so the swans strongly mocked him for being shy:

   "Flamenco, little flamenco, you're already very flamenco," said the swans who insulted a pink swan.

   "They don't call me a pink swan, but I have a bad name and worse," said a Pink Swan, he was alone because of the white swans they isolated him, the family did not accept being a pink swan in members of swans.

   "I'm not a swan anymore," said a Pink Swan, saddening a drop of tears when he swam out into the lake. Leave this place of the swans, a pink swan cried because traveling further before the swans were intolerant than to speak more ill of being for a pink swan, swimming until night, one moment, he could sleep in hiding the cattails, a pink swan was calm as it closed its eyes on land.

the pink swan

   Dawning sunlight on a day, when a Pink Swan woke up quickly while the noise of the flamingos talking was heard in the lake, he saw here that marvelous birds have pink feathers that I myself, of the same color, had begun swimming to approaching flamingos in the reeds, a Pink Swan felt shy and nervous to get close to the flamingos, when another one of them suspected him to ask a pink bird hasn't had two long legs, and a short orange beak.

   "What happened? You don't have legs?" Get down or hide like this in the water? asked the flamingo.

   "Ah, but I'm a little or dwarf flamingo," said a pink swan who felt shy, his voice was whispering.

   "Poor little thing, but I like being friends with you, we're the same, little flamingo, come to my friends," the expansive flamingo said to him, when we went to approach the flamingos, walk with the side of a Pink Swan, while the flamingos surprised him with concern this happen, for the expansive flamenco friends spoke very well and sociable.

   "Is it Flamingo?" How does it not have two long legs? another flamingo friend asked a Pink Swan.

   He has been subdued there, his new friend told him about flamingos, so they were very tolerant to support a small flamingo without legs, however, his eyes saw it as beautiful to be a friend to flamingos, they began to talk because we share a positive opinion as the family is wonderful together with a Pink Swan.

   On another day, the expansive flamingo played with the Pink Swan for chasing the water in that lake, that flamingos saw him for a moment.

   "See you to rest," replied the expansive flamingo to pink swan.

   When they were walking close to the shore of the lake, then all the flamingos are sleeping with their legs standing up, they went to sleep, but the Pink Swan felt shy to move open and stopped wings, step on one leg and another leg rose by movement of a balance, they closed their eyes and be happy in breathing than to be calm while they could be heard from behind by the white swans they died of laughing a lot, the flamingos saw those as unpleasant, there were bad and ugly criticisms of a Pink Swan while the swans whites laughed to speak or mock "flamingo" to a pink swan, he felt full to the point of annoyance to anger, the squawking voice was shouted while the flamingos amazed him, a Pink Swan strongly challenged the white swans to give the same laughter when the flamencos defended him to challenge again. Every time the white swans have come out to walk, laughed rume to call "little flamingo" forever, they flee instead of the flamingos.

   "Aren't you Flamingo? But you are a Pink Swan," answered the expansive and graceful flamingo to him who has felt sad for lowering his head when the eyes suspect that seeing the flamingos make the rumors in member.

   "I have to go now," exclaimed a Pink Swan, it was hurt to walk that place.

   The flamingos are happy to follow him, calling each other to stop something for a Pink Swan by not going alone.

   "I love being you are, a Pink Swan!" You don't mind if I stop calling flamingo anything —answered his female flamingo friend.

   A Pink Swan was astonished to smile happily at the new family of flamingos, this family is very important. When the flamingos soared to swim wings also a Pink Swan could flown, we are happy in the sky.

   The white swans watched him amaze while a Pink Swan had been smug to indifferent to not caring the swans, the flamingos and a Pink Swan flitted traveling in the afternoon sun in the desert.

© 2023 by Cristobal Cisternas 

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