Matthew

Sara Paredes
Mr. Tangen
Pre-AP English
January 6 2009

M.M
Mayor Mathew


Would you like to know how you will die? I am sure that most of the answers will be “no”, but in my case I knew how I would die even before I learned how to walk. However I don’t mind knowing that I would have one of the most tragic and agonizing deaths, but I do mind that I tried my entire life trying to change my destiny. And yet here I am in my deathbed, and all the effort I used to change my destiny was useless. Okay, I must admit I didn’t have such a terrible life as I pictured it. Actually, I saved many lives even before they were in danger, I taught many souls to love, and most of all I gave humanity faith.

Now you know a little about me, and I think it is time that you here the story, the whole story, so you can understand me better.

I come from a very poor family and was born as any poor boy was born, in an old farm with only animals and my parents. Some time later, when three magicians found out about my birth, they came and gave me three wonderful presents, therefore I like to call them my three godparents. After I grew up more I was baptized by John.

My infancy will remain as a secret in my heart, because soon the entire world will know my life, so I want to keep like thirty years for myself. So lets skip some few years, until I’m grown up.

I studied in several different places of the world and returned home. In my arrival the village where I grew up was a mess, and the people didn’t have any sort of faith, so I decided to postulate myself as a mayor. Eventually, I won the office since there weren’t any more candidates. In my acceptance speech I made two very important statements that will reason my future actions. First I said, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.” (TKJB Matthew 5:17). Also, so people had trust in me and only me, I had to remember the citizens to “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” (TKJB Matthew 7:15). After my speech, there was only one thing left to do before I could take the job. I had to do a sermon.

I decided that my sermon would be in a mount, because I thought it was very important to be surrounded by peace and nature so I could really enter the people’s hearts. After knowing them better, I gathered them around and started talking. During my sermon, I first talked about trust. I told them it was crucial for the entire village that they trusted me and only me, and followed my laws even though at first they won’t seem very useful. Also, I emphasized about the importance of being humble, “That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.” (TKJB Matthew 6:4). Finally, I told my fellows that no matter what you are inside, you are known by your decisions and by the face you show to the world.

When I received the job, started out walking through the streets, and saw I school orphans. When I entered all of the children were having a great time, except for twelve little boys that were crying in a corner. I wet over to them, and started to talk. When the sunset had burst out, I left but came back the next several days to talk to the twelve little boys. Soon, I decided to adopt them all, and they became my help in the job. Oh! Also we invented new names for ourselves. I was MM (Mayor Matthew) a by twelve little helpers were 12MM (12 Mini Mayors).

My 12MM and I started to walk the streets to know the people and their troubles. We went to the only hospital in the village, were we met thousands of sick people, and one came over to me and told me to cure him. I said to him, “Dear child, have you followed all the rules and laws? Have you kept your promises?” the guy said no, so I told him to come back when he had everything ready and free of any sin. Some days later the leper came back and he had done everything, so I told him, tell your doctors to check you once more, for when the law is obeyed the body will heal.

Later on I attended other sick, blind, mute and deaf people, and they were all healed after following every single rule and keeping every single promise.

After visiting the worst places in the village, the 12MM and I met two enemy gangs. They have been fighting for many generations, so I asked one of them, “When will you stop attacking the other gang?” and they responded, “When the others stop stealing from us”. Then I approached to the other gang and asked the same question, and their answer was the same. This experience made me do new law that every citizen would follow. As the villagers read the law I said, “Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right check, turn to him the other also.” (TKJB Matthew 5:38).

About two years of being a mayor, came the global warming. All the food my village produced dried out, and the neighbor villages and cities had also run out of food. I decided to do a reunion with the entire village, and I took a can of beans and a corn I had left from the last season. The citizens then started to cry out, “MM! We have followed all the rules, and still we are hungry! Please we beseech you give us some food.” Oh! I was in so much trouble, I had no idea what I was going to do. I first thought to run away, but I had some dignity, so I decided to improvise. I raised my hands and started to say “We are all in trouble…we must all share, and that is a law.” Everybody started to take out the supply that they had saved from the last years, and started to share. Finally, every body was full and happy. The drought ended soon after the reunion and once more my village had a filled belly.

I continued doing by job and made more and more people happy, and at the same time I made more and more laws. But one day, I received an anonymous letter that frightened me out. The letter said that he/she had been sending reports of my actions and rules to the government of the country, and I should watch out because I was making my own dictatorship. I decided to ignore the letter for a while and keep on doing my job. Nevertheless, the next day there were huge posters through the city against me, and some government agents were there. They decided to examine me, but found nothing wrong, so they just told the villagers that my laws were invalid and they didn’t had to obey me.

After the agents left, I sat down and started to cry, but some few citizens came to me, gave me a helping hand, and said that no matter what the government said they will follow me. So I raised up, looked to the other people against me and said that I have cured many of you, made peace in the streets and fed you during your times of hunger, I am sure I don’t deserve your anger. Also, “Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.” (THKJB Matthew 10:32). So if you want to go against me go ahead, but in hell you will pay for your actions.

Then with some helpers I started walking to my house, but someone screamed from the crowed “You liar! I am sure you are the one going to hell”, so I turned around and I couldn’t believe my eyes. The one that shouted that dreadful sentence was a son to me, was one of the orphans I adopted, the person that said it was Judas. A tear started to run through my face, I turned around and left with a broken heart.

The next months to come were dreadful. Most of the village was against and I moved house several times, because they were invaded by mad civilians. I decided to go talk with the 12MM in a restaurant, and Judas was also there. I told them how much I appreciated their in conditional support after all the trouble. Also, I said that I had very few days left of live, and in my absence my laws and teachings should be spread throughout other cities and villages with the help of them. Peter, the eldest of the 12MM raised and said, “Matthew we will be faithful until the end”, but I laughed and responded, “Dear Peter you can’t promise that because until the dawn of tomorrow you will have denied knowing me three times.” Then Peter left the restaurant very angry, and Judas left after him to talk to the authorities.

That was the lest time I saw my children. They all took separate ways and I got ready for my death. Few hours later the authorities accused me of rebellion and many other things. Therefore, I had to have the worst death sentence, and had to take a poison called Agonize. The name is perfect for the poison, because it is the slowest pain fullest death a person could bare. The victim can feel every vane and artery explode, your lungs slowly closing and your traquea clogging. Then all your bones start to grow insanely fast, and they start cracking over your skin, until all your organs are smashed out of the body, and yet you are still living. The victim will die in approximately 12 hours, with a none stop pain that will make him or her beg for a bullet in their skull.

So here I am. Dead. I am thankful that finally after that pain I can rest in peace. I am waiting for the moment to come back to the world and tell prove all the statements against me wrong, because I believe in true justice and I didn’t harm anyone. But until the day I come back, we will have to take separate roads, so I leave you with a farewell good-bye.