The Apache Tears
They walked around the pond
speaking of the beautiful lotes
she told a story of someone From her youth
about the legend of "Apache Tears"
a man who cried when someone
spoke his name.
She said he cried for them that they
were then cursed. He believed his name meant
" he who divides"
They said her would hold aa sacred stone
to the sunset to repent for those who cursed
him by speaking his name.
She said he believed the mention of his
name would cause the speaker
to be divided from there spouse or lover
either by health or the lack of compromising.
He said the pronunciation of his name as a word
weirded the truth of there existence. Those who lacked
the knowledge of belief in a God any God
would Speak him as a word
and not a man. Women would use him
to lift and move things: but never to love
and some found there selves cursed for doing so.
They asked for fortune, but wished
not him: they often found themselves cursed.
One day he found a woman who had
insight on how to be loved: she was kind and caring
and often she would hug and kiss him.
He gave her his treasures
and she gave him love.
On day he became someone else,
a husband and then a father, and it seemed
that his name
meant more to him
and his beleif in placing curses on people
faded. With this in mind people
spoke of the beautiful stone he would
use to remove the curses from the cursed. And one man wanted it.
So the man rode his horse out where the man and woman lived.
And he asked if he could buy the precious stone.
The Fellow told him
I cry for a world where loneness
causes those to speak the words of people
as theres. So do I cry for the people who hear
the tales of the Lonely.
But I am know longer lonely and you wish to
take from me that which has made me
unlonely: how do I see thee, then
that ye might made me foolish and unloved again that I might curse
thee, which I have-not done before.
the man told him: no I'm lonely and wish to be as lucky as you are. He sold him the stone!
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