The Curse of the Red Saint :: (short story)

The Curse of the Red Saint

(short story)

Saturday 08 March 2008

Screams of wounded souls..
Waking me up every night..
Calling salvation..
From this eternal curse..
The curse of the red saint..
I remember once I asked a wise man..
Who is the red saint? And what is his curse?
The wise man smiled..
The wise man said: “follow the voice from deep inside”
“it’s the call of your heart”
“find the lands of maroon clouds”
“And crystal rain drops”
I laughed and didn’t care..
A crazy old man have words to say..
Time passed by me..
And one day..
I found my self walking in this road..
Road of bloody roses and golden thorns..
I raised my eyes towards the sky..
And there it was..
The maroon sky..
The old man wasn’t crazy..
There was a truth in his words..
I continued on my own path..
Moving between thouse wounded souls..
I stopped infront of this huge gate..
With a big broken heart made of rocks..
I opened the gate and went through..
There was that beautiful host..
“Welcome to the land of crystal rain drops” she said..
I wondered..could it be!
I followed her through that long corridor..
She lightened a candle and went down the stairs..
I couldn’t resist following her..
We entered a big hall..
Where lots of people were dancing..
People dancing from joy..
People jumping from pain..
People pretending to be coy..
I asked the host “who are they? Why they complain?”..
The host smiled to me..
She said “forgive me I can’t explain”..
“tomorrow you will know”..
“the wound of the golden bow”..
“it is the arrow of destiny”..
“Hungry for young hearts”..
“to fill them with shame”..
I didn’t believe..
I couldn’t understand..
Why? All those people in this strange mood?
Pain & pleasure mixed together!
That’s really weird..
I moved through the crowd..
I felt their angry souls in their way of dancing..
I kept moving..
I found two doors..
One with sign says Heaven..
Other with sign says bathroom..
I thought for a moment..
What will be my choice?
I choose heaven..
I opened the door..
There was a long green way..
As I entered and moved along the way..
The door behind me closed..
I kept walking in that green garden..
Smelling that awesome smell..
A smell like the pink color..
Wild and beautiful..
I found at the end of the way a blue boat and red sea..
I don’t know why I felt to ride the boat..
I got in..
And started to travel through that rose waters..
Watching yellow dolphins jumping everywhere..
Feeling happiness catching my heart..
I was happy..
And suddenly it was..
This big thunder storm..
I looked towards the shore..
It was far away behind..
Can I make it?
Or I will die here?
I tried to keep controlling the boat..
I tried..
Tried..
Then the thunder of fate stroke my boat..
Blackout..
Black..
Black..
I feel warm thing coming near me..
I can’t see..
What is it? I don’t know..
What it will do? I can’t figure..
A long time passed..
That’s what I felt..
I still can’t see..
I feel am laying on some bed made of stones..
But I can’t see..
Lately few light begin to enter my eyes..
A blurry vision..
I raised my head slowly..
I tried to open my eyes..
Finally I managed to do so..
I didn’t know where I am?
I looked around..
It was a cave..
Like tribal caves..
Gray stones..
Cold place..
It was kind dark..
I tried to move..
But I felt my body is fixed to that bed of stone..
I made a huge effort..
But I can’t set my self free..
I felt fear is sneaking to my soul..
I screamed..
“please, please…don’t let me die alone”
No one answer..
Where I am? Who made me like this?
A few time passed..
And am losing faith with every second goes..
I heard steps coming from far away..
I kept listening..
The steps is coming closer..
A figure is beginning to appear..
I couldn’t see it clear..
I tried to concentrate..
I was shocked..
The more my vision improve..
The more I am shocked..
Is that her?
My lost baby?
Is it true?
The blurry figure became close..
Close enough to see details..
Yes she was..
My love..my passion..
My baby..
I shouted..
Set me free my dear..
She didn’t reply..
I repeated..
She appears like she can’t hear me..
She came so close to my laying boday..
I looked in her eyes..
They were strange..
They were shining..
Like a gem stone..
I felt her handing moving on my chest..
She kept scanning my naked chest with the palm of her smooth hands..
I don’t know why I felt comfortable..
I felt safe..
Suddenly she stopped her hands on a certain place on my chest..
I felt her nails going deep in my flesh..
Then she raised her hands..
Screaming with some ancient words..
I felt something wrong..
She raised her other hand..
There was a knife..
Not like any other knife..
Its one like those old tribal designed things..
She kept raising her hands and aiming towards that spot in my chest..
She raised her head upwards..
She kept saying those ancient words..
Suddenly she stabbed me..
In that spot..
In my heart..
I felt my heart bleeding..
Bleeding all those sweet feelings and memories..
I felt dizzy..
My vision is becoming blurry again..
Blackout..
Black..
Black..
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah”..
I screamed..
I woke up..
Can’t believe all what I saw!
Was it a nightmare?
I kept shaking my head trying to understand..
to figure out what happened..
everything seemed to be normal..
I am in my bed..
I raised my body..
Went to open my room’s door..
I opened the door..
There was the shock..
It wasn’t my room..
I found myself walking between those crowds again..
The crowds of the lost place..
Who dance from joy and pain..
I couldn’t believe..
I want to get out of here..
I can’t take it anymore..
I want to leave..
I want to go home..
I kept running..
Running..
Running till I felt my lungs are being squeezed by a fist of rage..
I found a door..
And there was an old man sitting there..
I ran towards him..
Crying “please let me out, I want to go home”..
The old man raised his eyes towards me..
Oh he is that old wise man..
“I met you before” I said..
He seemed he can’t see me..
Man we met before don’t ignore me..
I begged..
He looked towards me..
“be quite son, there is no way out here” he said..
I screamed “how can it be? I don’t belong to here”
He said “I warned you before, about that ancient curse, but you didn’t believe, you choose to move on with your stubborn mind and shining heart, and here you are, in the land of the saint”
“no I must be dreaming, this can’t be true, this is all lies” I complained
“hush my baby, you will get used to it” he said
I ran away, screaming, full of fear..
I kept running..
Running in circles..
At last I found a light coming from far away..
I ran towards it..
Running with all I got from power..
This is my last hope..
Or I will be lost in between the forgotten crowd..
I reached the light..
There was that creature..
I am sure its not a man..
Its something strange..
It looks like a man..
But its far away from being a real man..
I stopped in front of it..
Down on my knees..
Mercy..i begged..
I can’t be..i said..
The creature turns towards me..
He looked at me..
“you want to leave the kingdom of sorrow?” he asked in a deep old voice..
“yes please” I replied so weak..
“but there is a big hole in your heart…you are not complete” he said..
“how your majesty?” I asked..
“she took your heart, she made the oldest crime in the history of mortals”..he said
“she killed you by the name of the red saint, she killed you by the name of love” he said
“no she can’t hurt me, she do love me”..i refused to believe his words
“from where you came, you shall remain, until you are complete again” he screamed at me
“no way..no way..don’t leave me here…please” I cried..
I felt my sound fading away..
The ground under me is not solid any more..
Its dissolving..
Am falling..
Falling by the name of the red saint..

AM Free

AM Free
16.February.2008

Am free..
Am free to fly, to reach where I want..
Am free in your marble streets..
Am free in your poor suburbs..
Am free as I was born free..
I will always scream no..
No for anything that I don’t like..
No for any overload or heavy weight..
No for burning the happiness in my heart..
I was born free and I will always be free..
They used to call me the bird of roof..
As he always fly high and no one can keep his freedom..
He just spread his wings and roam in the blue sky..
To mix with that blue and fill his soul..
To breath thousands and thousands of young dreams..
The dreams, the hope in a long cold winter night..
A coat of flowers made by my darling..
To warm me up in my heavy journey..
The road to redemption..
The road to freedom..
As I was born free and always will be..

Sabrina

Sabrina
04 August 2007

Sabrina…
Was the name
An angel…
Was her form
Like a dream in a hot summer night…
Filled with passion mixed with desire…
When I saw her eyes…for the first time…
I was crushed by a storm of feelings…
Random feelings…
Happiness…
Sadness…
I saw my fairy tale in her eyes…
All those dreams I chased in my life…
Was in her shy eyes…
We met…

***

I'm sitting here alone…
Thinking of her…
Is it love?
No it is not…my mind said
Maybe it is … my heart smiled
I want to call her number…
I want to tell her come to me…
A night without her seems like a lost dream…
I can't really tell how I feel...
I really miss you…

***

I am here standing again in front of her eyes…
I want to say a lot of things…
I want to speak…
I want to be strong…
I was never weak…
But I lose control…
When she look at me like this…
Again I leave…

-The End-

TUNISIA

Alone

Alone
2 july 2007


I'm sitting alone..
in a different home..
far away..
from my real home..
beyond blue seas..
up there near green fields..
the land of dried tears..
and hidden fears..
I sit back there..
in that sparkling cafe..
watching those rain drops..
falling in the mid-summer day..
like a bride..
crying in her night of fame..
tears of blood..
tears of gold you can say..
where is that warmness?
where did it fade away?
why it's cold?
maybe cause I remember..
everything you say..
about our destiny..
and our dreams..
painted in gray..
a volcano of anger..
a storm of pain..
I want to sleep..
and drift away..
in your blue eyes..
again and again..
a lonely bird..
singing his sad song..
who can take it anymore..
a cloud flying away..
in the open space..
where I can find a place for my head..
where I can be..
comfortably numb..




Karim Galal...02/07/07...Eden Cafe...Sidi Bo Seaid...Tunisia

A moment of lonliness

A moment of lonliness
13 June 2007

gray faces..
passing by me..
a long corridor..
has no end..
am walking by my self..
begining to lose hope..
i need support..
seeking the salvation from this dusty storm..
am falling..
falling..
"wait"..
a voice spoke from the dark..
you are not alone..
we are togther..
in the same boat..
facing the same storm..
"dont worry..it will pass"..
she tried to calm me down..
i raised my eyes to hers..
i dove in those blue eyes..
kept swiming in this open oceans..
looking for the shore..
and still remembering her voice..
"dont lose it..hope!"..
but we are too far from home..
we are lost in lonliness..
i cant take it anymore..
i wanna go back..
"dont be a coward..cause i know you are not"..
i droped a tear..
burning my face..
melting all those pains..
saved by the years..
am i hulcinating??
i wondered!
but one thing am sure of..
am going to survive..
i know..
i am sure..
i will survive..
yes i will..

Tunis...wednesday

A hot coffee cup

A hot coffee cup
24 February 2007


two cold hands..

a hot coffee cup..

dark clouds..

swimming up..

following each other..

he watched them moving..

a lonly old man..

sitting there like a fallen king..

the details of his skin..

and his broken wings..

reminded him of his lonly fact..

this much of love..

this much of pain..

burning all down..

as his anger raise..

he used to search for the key..

to open the salvation door..

but the key was deep there..

in the dark red sea..

he took his boat..

with intent he will succeed..

the waves were strong..

but his faith wouldnt let go..

he fought back hard..

for he knew it will be his last chance..

he knew this music..

he new these tones..

long long time ago..

he remembered how this music used to make him dance..

this delectation & pleasure..

but it was only a glance..

the waves are strong..

but thats not how it used to be..

there is a shore on the sight..

the boat wont survive..

he took a jump..

in the ocean of sorrows & tears..

he kept swimming..

the sum of all fears..

she came from no where..

as he watched her on that stage..

his hands was stretched with a fist of rage..

her eye..

a clear sky..

he fought..

he didnt surrender..

his feet steped on the shore..

now he will settle..

he wont fight for more..

his happiness filled the air..

for he at last found his dream..

its inside that cave..

he knew it..

running, inside he went..

dark it was..

but his faith lighted the way..

he kept running..

he didnt care for time..

his hair fade..

from black to grey..

and he was still running..

am tired..

his body screamed..

stop now..

but what about the dream he dreamed..

its endless..

a big laugh..

its kind of funny..

its kind of sad..

all the dreamed he used to dream..

only made him mad..

running in circles..

infinity of probabilities..

and just one outcome..

he raised his eyes..

its raining..

dark clouds swimming in the sky..

two cold hands..

holding a hot coffee cup..

Colors of Love: The 4 hours

Colors of Love: The 4 hours
29 January 2007


2:00 p.m. (YELLOW)

Bus station..

The clock is ticking..

tik tok..

a minute end..

tik tok..

a minute start..

tik tok..

some rules can be bend..

tik tok..

and others are too hard..

a bus came..

people eating each other..

a big jump..

a big jump can take me far away..

am still waiting..

a new bus came..

i feel this is the one..

sure it is..

its coming closer..

her face deep there between the crowd..

comon jump!

3:00 p.m. (BLUE)

now..

away we are..

"can you speak now?"

I mumbled..

"yes.."

"i got enough..

"she was in pain..

"why dont you try again.."

"maybe it will work..

"I tried to give her hope..

"noway, he is too rough & stupid by the way!"

she was like a volcano of desire & hate..

i know that he is piece of shit full of nothing, but I cant tell you!

he is my friend or he was..

a twister in my brain..

flashes..

laughs..

"LOYALTY!!"..

"BETRAYAL!!"..

which one?

I love you..

but its considered taboo!

All I want is your smile!

All you want is my heart!

You are calling for me..

and I cant tell you how much I waited for this call..

But I just cant answer back!

a tear droped from my eye..

for all these words i couldnt say..

for all these feelings i am trying to kill..

she is still calling..

the phone is ringing..

her name..

her number..

my misery..!!

4:00 p.m. (RED)

silence..

her eyes making enough noise to fill this world..

she gave me that look..

I couldnt resist..

I opened my arms..

5:00 p.m. (SILVER)

i love you..

she whispered to the wind..

I raise my fist and broke into my chest..

I grabed my heart with a fist of iron..

I throw it away..

behind those black mountains..

I am sorry..

some stories were written without an end..

they been left like this..

been left to disteny..

goodbye blue sky..

wont you cry..

I will fly..

there..

away..

behind the silver sun..

where i can find warmth and peace..

meet ya there when time comes..!