SOUL CRUMBLES

Sitting on the bed, Marte looks out the window.

It’s very cold in the room.

Slow breath creates white puffs rising towards the ceiling.

-You asked me a question, Marte says to Simon

-Yes, Simon reply: Do bad people really exist?

Marte looks Simon, remaining in a painful silence full of memories.

-Yes Simon. Bad people exist. Many have become that way through the insults of a lifetime, others are simply born that way, still others have been educated to be bad. Whoever says they don’t exist is lying, first of all to himself. Denying this reality is like denying the very existence of this universe.

Marte sighs, then he continues: – On the other hand, one can expect the denial of evil from people who deny even the most trivial of evidence.

-What is ? Simon asks

-That God doesn’t exist. And that most people are nothing but puppets.

-And you? Simon asks to Marte

-Me too Simon. Having been born on the wrong side, I am nothing but a puppet too.