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 Re: حكاية الطفل الساكنة جواي (Re: الطيب الشيخ)
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Do you see that very far star in the sky
She used to stare at me
Look there towards the east
At Qibla direction and Wad Tamim tomb direction
From there climb up up up with your eyes sight
That’s a well known star to me
Every night after all people go to sleep
Looks as if she is talking to me
Sometimes laughs and smiles to me
Or that I am just dreaming
She asked me: did you recognize me
I sat in the middle of my bed
I got down and took my father’s jug of water
I washed my face from sleeping
She laughs and laughs at me
I told her you look very familiar to me
You look like an adorable face
As if the face of my mother
Before she traveled and disappeared
Before she was taken to the doctor
But I can’t see her face marks
Her face is more beautiful
Than all the women
In our area
When she returns from the town,
She used to bring bananas ,
sometimes sweets and grapes
But in her last travel
She stepped and walked out ,
But when they returned : She was lying on a bed , coverd by her white thobe
Did I ever told you before ؟
My mother was carried on a bed
They said she is going up to the heavens
A lot of men rushed her out
But when the bed is back
It was empty ! she was not there any more
Once I asked my father
He turned his face away and didn’t reply to me
His answer was trears
He said it’s prayers time
Prepare water for ablution
Let’s take our dinner and go to the farm
I was scared and never asked again
So that my father will not cry again
My mother traveled at mid day
She was brought by that car
A lot of people gathered around
Our house is full of strangers
Old men and many women
Some of them are young and others are elder
Some of them I have seen for the first time
around in our area
My friend the star cried with me
She said now cover your face and go to sleep
Tomorrow you have to go to school
I asked her how do you get up there
She didn’t reply
Once I heard my father talking to a stranger
He said he knew she will not live any longer
Her star in the sky had disappeared for a while
They said my mother went very far away
May be you have met her over there
Or may be she climped up there
If you meet her ask her where were she gone
Get down and chat with me
She said: No my home is very far away
I looked at its place
It’s to the south of four stars which makes a bed shape
I don’t like Beds anymore
She told me it’s enough for tonight
Go to sleep
Tomorrow again I will come to you
It’s time for me to disappear
As the day is the time for sun
But for us the stars we have to get some rest
And we will appear again after sunset
To give light to people
I told her I want to be up there with you
She said: No
I saw my mother’s bed placed there
Some obese ladies lied on it
Some of them are our relatives and others are not
When the women left they broke the bed
But it was left abandoned there , not repaired
Every night I look at the sky and stars
People were sleeping
Some of them were snoring and disturb others from sleeping even for a second
Every mother cares for her kids
They cover them from cold
So that they will not catch a cold
It’s autumn time
The wind was blowing from the north
I am lying alone on my bed
Nobody is around me
There’s no mattress on my bed
Sometimes I was afraid ,
Sometimes I fell to sleep very early
Other times I never sleep
And I carry my lifetime question with me
And never find an answer to it
As the sadness was my friend for along time
Before even I get to school
So after few years which you can count in your fingers it came again to me
Before even I finished my school
This time it took my father away
Just one day before Eid
I heard some women talking
They said she was a happy lady she died quietly and peacefully
In a good day
I saw tears on the eyes of some of them
But others didn’t care
I heard the same talking from men on my father’s last departure day
They said he passed away in a good and blessed day
Sometimes I said to myself tomorrow they will return
But it had been so long since they left
Maybe they were up there with the stars
And maybe even further than that away
My friend the star said:
Departed will not comeback again
She told me not to ask many questions , how and when
She said I wouldn’t understand the answers for .
She promised in the future I will know everything and learn
She added: everyone will go through this journey
and no two days would be the same.
Everyone will depart on their exact time
Even the sun and the stars one day will depart and fade away.
Remains our lord creator of all mankind and the owner of the great throne
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الطيب الشيخ
فيس بوك
تويتر
انستقرام
يوتيوب
بنتيريست