Cookies/Bormor

"Hey, hero!", they called to me. "Come to the Dark Side! We have cookies!"

In response I usually pulled a ham sandwich out of my rucksack and demonstratively ate it. What a thing to shout! The Light side is always well-equipped. Cookies... what a joke!

After a time, though, I stopped laughing. I mean, don't get me wrong. The supply situation on our side was excellent, as always. My rations arrived like clockwork, and in reponse to the taunting of the Dark I could at will demonstrate chicken legs, pineapple, all manner of delicacies. They, on the other hand, just kept on flashing their cookies. It was weird. I mean, I realised that even on our side not everyone could permit themselves to eat chicken legs and pineapple, but that was only just! Some get more, some get less, but on the whole no-one's miserable, no-one has to go hungry. And our social order is the best, and our economy is blossoming. Whereas on the Dark Side, as everyone knows, it's murky lawlessness, ruin and corruption, military dictatorships... all kinds of terrors!

Even so, even so... every Dark one always has cookies. It may be symbolic, but nevertheless, it's a line in the sand. Every single one, without exception. Even when other things, more necessary for survival, are lacking - medicine, housing, ammunition - they always have cookies. All of them, no lie. This demanded respect. And there came a day when, to the usual call of "Hey, Light one, want to come to our side? We have cookies!", suddenly, taking myself by surprise but nonetheless entirely honestly... I replied: "Yes!"

Since then I am on the Dark Side. Yes, it can be hard. Yes, we have our problems. Yes, sometimes I remember my sandwiches and chicken legs with longing. So what? I have cookies! Always! Pockets full of them! Let any Light bastard wake me in the middle of the night and say - "well, then, where are they...?" - I am always ready to show them. On demand! The Dark side will never run out of cookies!

Eating them is strictly forbidden.

([Bormor]; original [here])