Humpty Dumpty Sat on a Wall

West Berlin, November 9th, 1989: The brightest of Thursday mornings spread out its wings of light over the city of West Berlin. Humpty Dumpty, jobless as usual, loafed around with his big brother, Empty Dumpty.
Empty was kind of a bully as he always threatened to crack his little brother’s skull or make an omelette out of him; but no less was our little Humpty. “You poach me, I fry you”, would be his usual reply to the rooster. Anyhow, both got along pretty well.
It was nine in the morning, and Humpty was already tired. He looked around and saw a big wall with graffiti all over it, across the road. “I need to take a break, brother. Let’s sit on that wall over there, across the street” said little Humpty. “No way am I crossing that… you know the rumours about how chickens can’t cross roads, right?”, replied Empty. “Aye, your wish! I can’t risk getting all scrambled inside. I need to rest” , said Humpty while he crossed the road, ran past Checkpoint Charlie, and quickly sat on the Berlin Wall. Peace at last. Or so he believed.
Humpty’s move towards the Wall did not go unnoticed to Checkpoint C. They immediately informed a sniper at an observation tower close by, that an East German egg is trying to escape. “So he thinks he can just climb and alert the East Germans to save him? Very very foolish, my friend”, said the sniper who aimed straight at Humpty’s head.
Somewhere in Friedrichstadt, Mrs. Dumpty’s heart thumped faster, as she heard the bang of a gun and saw a bunch of crows diverging into infinity. “When will these stupid East Germans stop trying?”, she exclaimed. Little did she know.
People started gathering on both sides of the wall to see the egg dead with its broken shell and yolk split over both sides of the wall. Humpty’s friends quickly recognized him and started protesting against such an act of violence towards a West German. The people on the east part of Berlin screamed out, “Murderers, you West Germans! You kill your own men!” The West Germans realized it was true! They started shouting out, “Tyranny! Down with the Government! No more deaths! Down with the wall!”
The protests alerted the Governments on both sides. They sent in their infantries, with a leader to solve the matter and try to get Humpty Dumpty back to life. They tried putting him back together, maybe that would silence the raging protesters. But at the end of the day, all was in vain! Violence spread out all over the city on both sides with protesters breaking down shops and houses, crying out for justice. “Justice to Humpty Dumpty! Justice to Germany! Down with the wall or down with the Government!”
With the issue this serious, leaders from both sides got together for an emergency meet. After hours of discussion, they pronounced the Berlin Wall to be taken down as West Germany and East Germany would officially become one whole Germany as it was before 1961. That was all that the ‘Germans’ needed to hear. Millions of people gathered on both sides of the wall and waited for the signal. At once they start to break through the wall by any means necessary. After hours of struggle, the Berlin Wall was finally brought down.
The next evening, the Germans lit candles in the memory of Humpty Dumpty, the Martyr. Half of Berlin attended his funeral. His tombstone read,
“Humpty Dumpty sat on The Wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great Fall.
All the King’s horses and all the King’s men,
Couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again;
But Humpty Dumpty, the true German,
Brought us all together again.
R.I.P.
(1810-1989)”
-Arka Prabha Paul