Five year old boy arrested for not knowing who is in the garden

The garden can be two different things

Amurawaiye Rotimi Adeoluwa
The Haven
2 min readJul 19, 2021

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Photo by Francois B. Arthanas on Unsplash

During the rhyme session in class, the children were coaxed to sing some nursery rhymes from ‘Little Little Little star’ to Baa Baa Black sheep’ . The teacher then decided it was time to play a game of ‘Who is in the garden’. The kids jumped around asking rhetorically ‘who was in the garden?’ While the majority of the class had the candid opinion of the fact that it was a little girl who was in fact in the garden, Troy who represented the minority opinion said:(Troy is five)

“The garden can be two different things. It could be a place we wish to be, it could be a prison. A garden is meant to be beautiful, adorable, entertaining, a house for humans, a home. The garden represents human progression from a state of innocence and bliss to the present human condition of knowledge of sin, misery, and death. So who really is in the garden? A little fine girl? A boy? An animal? or is the garden simply an empty void space.”

After this speech which seemed to have no actual literal meaning, the class was in total silence for about two minutes after which the class teacher called the cops for the young lad to be arrested for ‘Blasphemy’. Mrs. Pucks, the class teacher said that “ Never in my life have I heard such blasphemy, Imagine doubting there isn’t a little pretty girl in the garden. Troy is clearly possessed by the devil himself” Troy is currently undergoing a trial with no solid accusation levelled against him.

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WHO REALLY IS IN THE GARDEN?

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Amurawaiye Rotimi Adeoluwa
The Haven

Product designer by night, law student by day, and football fanatic every waking moment. I craft designs, write rants, and share life’s funniest twists