In the depth of the forest, there lived a small phoenix in a hot, kind place where the shining sun and gentle winds blew upon its feathers. It was fond of tall trees and would look at them from above because they were the first to say to the birds: Surround me, for I am very small, and I don’t see anything until it harms me. So I wish I would fly until I see the planets and the world around me.
The wise big tree said to it: You will grow like us, so don’t ever stop until you want to stop, then stop with what you have now.
A young man and a little girl came to gather fruits from the forest. They said to it: Oh God, what a beautiful day! Look at this small tree. It is a small tree, it looks like a tree of the forest. The tree got angry and said to the trees: The birds talk about me that I am small. The wise tree said something gentle: They love you and are fond of you. A rabbit came and screamed at the tree. The tree said to him: Rabbit, is this gentle? Indeed, it didn’t notice me until I existed, so she said: If you didn’t notice me, how did you scream from above me? She said: The trees are afraid of me.
So one of them said: This is something harmful, but its owner is gentle. The small tree said: I know that, so I am very happy with what I have. So the trees didn’t remain with much, and they ate from their roots until the ground was thirsty, and they didn’t wait, and they were harmful and something evil was on me to fly before this, so she said another tree: This is all I understood. You must be content with what you have, but the small phoenix wanted to grow and had decided to grow, but it was still angry and didn’t feel the heat, and it wanted to grow.
The trees were kind to him, and there was fruit and the other was pleasant, but it was still angry and didn’t feel the heat, and decided to grow, then a fox came to shake the trees so the trees would fall and nothing remained of the trees except the jasmine. She said to the wise tree: Remember and be happy with what you have, and the phoenix felt sad and was now alone and had a difficult time upon him to hold it, and was still not finding what would happen to him, and still angry.
And he passed without a trace to prove it, and increased his shouting with sadness and loneliness, day after day. On a day, he came to the palace and said to him: I know you are searching for your ancestors. I have seen them, and now they are strong, thick, and are roaming the world. What are they doing? And I am the one who killed them, because they didn’t take me with them. I want to save them. If they destroy the forest, then they leave it and the birds die and the world becomes hot. So he said to her: Wait, why about the case? So he replied: I know they are in a nest of a dove, and they fly around the world. The phoenix said to him: Wait, a minute. I am important. The matter is in a beautiful place, and they are all tame and I don’t have any evil to them, and the phoenix didn’t know the future, but it was still looking at him with evil, and after a year the circumstances of its disappearance to the forest were gone. He said: I will have a difficult future, so he took the phoenix to a big house and put it in a box, and placed the feathers around it. Then the two calmed down and learned from the wise one, so they did not believe at that, but they placed nuts above him.
In the next day, the tree looked at what happened, but the sun went down and no one came. The phoenix will not forget, so I am a tree, but the wolves came and stripped the jasmine from the tree, and took the tree to the gate, and the father was there and saw the phoenix, locked, and the jasmine became angry and its eyes became blind, and went toward the basket and the phoenix and all were sad. She said to him: Father, you were happy. Indeed, but I didn’t realize this, so I was suffering from it when I had nothing in them. So I wanted to come back to you as I was in it.
I will not forget, so I am a tree, but the fire came and destroyed the sun and the forest and the wind. They became sad and everything I have said to them. I have nothing. But like the tree, they did not believe at that, but they placed nuts above him.
Translated from: The Tree of the Phoenix