Hi, my name is Thisbe, and my life is a little similar to Romeo and Juliet. Well I am a young girl, the most attractive maiden in Babylonia and my boy friend, Pyramus is the most pretty and splendid man I ever seen. We live in neighbor homes and through time we fell in love, but my parents don’t want me to be with him, I am not allowed to see him. We used to communicate by a whole or a crack in the wall that separates both houses.
One night before the break of sunrise, while everyone was sleeping, we decide to meet in the nearby fields close to a mulberry tree. I arrive first, and when I was waiting, I decide to sat under the tree, in a moment, I see something strange it was a lion! I decide to refuge behind the rocks and in the moment I jump, my veil fall down. When the lion turn on, after drinking the water, he saw the veil that has fail down and he start playing, eating and attacking, lefting it all covered of blood.
When Pyramus was arriving, he saw this lion and thinks it was eating me, desperately he suicide, with his sword. His blood falls on the roots of this tree, and immediately turns the white mulberries all red. I was wishing not to disappoint my lover, I stepped carefully, and looking for him, willing to tell him the danger I had escaped only for being with him. When I came and saw the changed color of the mulberries, I think if it was the same place. I recognized my lover; taking on his body, I said him to talk me; when he hear me, Pyramus opened his eyes, and told me that he thinks that the lion has kill me and instantly closed the eyes again. I saw my veil covered with blood and I decide to kill myself, so we will die together; I couldn’t die so I decide to left my life in Babylonia and start a new one, since that moment I don’t know anything of my family, and is for my wonderful love story that the origin of red berries is known, as it does today.
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Daniela Restrepo P.10B
