The Paino That Gave Happiness

I was walking helplessly through the forest quietly, after running from guns of the Germans. I just kept running and dodging every tree that got in my way. I was too exhausted to carry on and decided to walk for a while. Surprisingly I ended up were the war had begun. ‘The bombing of the old church’.

I saw in the middle of the rubble a piano that had been the only thing that was left standing. I seemed to be saying to me ‘come over and play me, I will make you feel safe and happy’. So I did. I walked over to it and not knowing what to do I just started playing and yes it did make me feel safe and happy. But when I was playing I forgot that I was in the war and a German soldier had crept up on me. He shouted at me in a gruff voice, “You look like your happy and not home sick,” and before I knew it he had dropped his gun and came over to me and said to me this time in a soft voice, “Do you mind if I join you?” He sounded as sad as I was before I started playing the piano.

What was I meant to say to him ‘no’? I didn’t say no, I said, “Sure come and join us.” He looked at me with a funny face and said, “What do you mean us?” “The piano has made me happy and we are now connected, I know that the whole world can probably hear me but I am so happy and I don’t care now if I get kill.” But really in my heart I didn’t want to die, I just wanted to go home to my wife and kids. And with that he walked over to me and together we played the piano on and on and on. Until we stopped and he said, “Thank you for giving me this happiness,” at first I thought he was talking to me but when I saw him glaring at the piano with a tear rolling down his cheek, I knew he was thanking not me but the piano.