THE SHORT RELATE OF ROBERTO

For the love of God! there are people like you do not belong here, they said to
Roberto now go out and earn your livelihood Or is the asylum for you! Workhouse!
they repeated to him when he reached a very old age: "Everyone must do their
fair share!" Without work, without food! Without work, without food! Do not come
back until your pockets have something in them.

Roberto studied at a university in Bogotá, Colombia. He was a student of fine arts

and now he was thinking how his future did not become what he had dreamed of,
Roberto graduated the following year after getting married and working in the best
museum in Bogotá, where there is a friend who helped him to work there. If I get
the job, I work hard to help the museum in the projects of research, recovery and
conservation of sculptures but everything changed, when Roberto had been
married for 20 years his wife suffered an accident causing his death, this was fatal
for Roberto who could not stand the pain and resigned his job, Roberto had two
children with another woman but they did not appreciate him much, That's why he
felt very sad and lonely.

Seeing Roberto's condition, his children did not think three times to put him in an
asylum, where they would not have to take care of him or have to take care of
him, this place was horrible even more who took care of them since they were
forced to work to earn their food, Who will buy my medicine? He asked himself
every day since he was admitted to that asylum, every day when he returned to
bring something for the asylum, he had to wash the dishes, if he did not come
with something in his pockets he did not eat and he was seated on a cushion until
he slept. In those moments he remembered a small portrait of his wife, showing
his face so white and pure. Waiting for her to see him from heaven, bring health
and comfort to her son. Who once knew his love, His soft and sweet lips, which
often spoke of heavenly healing, I see them move once more, Singing: curly curls,
curled strands, would you be mine? Curly locks, curly curls, will you be mine? Oh,
little picture. I wanted you to be the portal to the place where you now live.
United, blissfully immortal Immortal, Roberto was talking about a boy he met in
the museum that wanders from one place to another. He does not sell buttons and
thread, but he would buy mercy. Because of the fear he sees when the faces pass
by. That is why Roberto insisted him saying he remembers that there is a place for
you in this world. And a purpose too. Although the boy insulted him by answering,
I told you that we do not want you here! I told you there's no room for you in this
place.

One day in the asylum Roberto yearned to return to the museum to see how, one
by one, the women turned to look at the most acclaimed sculpture in the museum,
bathed in candlelight. The posters carry the titles: Serpentine: the snake charmer,
an extraordinary spectacle, at that moment, one of the attendants of the asylum
appeared, she was wearing clothes of a possible rich gentleman, impeccably
dressed, something extravagant that belonging to a man who had been for a long
time that before being in the asylum was very ambitious, seductive and cunning.
Behind him is a closed curtain, which hides his past.

Suddenly that woman stands in front of Roberto and addresses everyone telling
them. Now, ladies and gentlemen, now is your time! Take a step up, you are here
to see the truly extraordinary!, I ask you not to despise this place, not to condemn
this place because of its most derogatory aspect, this was what your relatives
wanted to pay, but with the money they paid you are not enough so you must
help us with what you send them. family members or what you can get outside will
help you not to close the asylum hearing everything the woman in the asylum said,
Roberto understood that what lived in the asylum would not end soon, so she
always wanted to come up with a way to return to her home, although when she
asked for money in the street for asylum, she did not have the opportunity to flee
because he was constantly watched by some employee of the asylum.

In spite of everything that lived in the asylum the mistreatment, the abandonment
of whom he expected to help him and take care of him,
he understands that he was there because he never worried about doing more
than the money he gave his children, coming to the conclusion that what he lived
field where for the was what he built with his children and even what he did with
his parents, when they could not work anymore, he was not interested in being
with them and preferred to take them to an asylum, just as they did with him.

The only difference was that he had got a better asylum, to understand everything
that was happening in his life he understood that it would not be easy, in this way
he accepted his destiny and decided not to make his stay even more complicated.

After a while Roberto became accustomed to the asylum, his people and his
companions achieved a very good friendship, where they told each of their
adventures and mischief and being there in the asylum became his new life, little
by little a certain charm was found in those white walls and doors even when the
gardens were really ugly. He took them in appreciation and felt that he was
already part of the asylum, as if leaving were necessary.

After the years Roberto aged even more in all the years he was in the asylum he
saw men and women entering and leaving that did not find another home but the
asylum, home in which Roberto no longer wants to leave, but his days were
shortened to the point where Roberto already sensed that death was very close to
him, One day Roberto was looking towards the garden when suddenly a memory
came to his memory, where his dead wife was when they walked in a long and
beautiful first time I declare her love, to reach this point of memory. Seeing this in
his mind he realized that it was time to die after so many sufferings, with so many
years without his wife and finally the moment that he had so longed for, was
approaching him, before his conscience had already paid off all debt.

with whom he was evil in the past, and his future had no direction and his career
ended seeing this in his mind deep sigh and Roberto died watching the garden that
he remembered that woman that I love so much and still loved, despite the time
that elapsed his love did not end anymore if his pain and sadness disappeared
waiting to see his beloved in the afterlife.