A New Law In Oregon

     Today in Oregon a new law was passed. The new law states we can no longer touch the one's we love. We can no longer kiss our children goodbye, we can no longer hold someone as they cry. We cannot hug our friends, we can no longer touch the person deemed special in our hearts. As days go by we begin to yearn for our loved one's touch, but it is simply against the law. More days go by, now years and still we lack our loved one's touch.

     Our hearts begin to feel the toll gravity has taken on them. We become more comfortable closer to the ground. We begin to crawl everywhere on our hands and knees, weak from the lack of our loved one's touch. Over much time we begin to wear shoes on our hands to guard our hands from the rough terrain of the road. Society is now used to the fact that it is against the law to touch our loved one's. One day I decided to take the shoes off of my hands, to see and remember what used to be there. My hands had turned into feet, absent from any touch but that of the inside of the shoes. Where I once had hands, I now saw feet. 

    Instead of breaking the law, I simply conformed. This was the punishment. Think about it.