【 hummingbird 】

I was taken aback by this post of Takumi Saitoh off his blog on 3rd of April. I'll repost it but I'm not claiming it's mine. Takumi Saitoh's blog here.


The forest was on fire.


All of the animals,
insects and birds in the forest rushed to escape.


But there was one little hummingbird named Kurikindi,
or Golden Bird,who stayed behind.
This little bird went back and forth between water and fire,
dropping a single drop of water from its beak onto the fire below.


When the animals saw this they began to laugh at Kurikindi.
"Why are you doing that?" they asked.


And Kurikindi replied,

"I am only doing what I can do"




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