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..!

Romanza

Romanza
24 November 2006

sunny day it was!

or gloomy?

I dont remember..

all I know she was there.

standing by the flowers..

it was like the flowers was watching her beauty.

for people she was only a beautiful girl.

for me she was the world.

flawless bloody red!

that was the color of her lips..

endless black night!

deep in her eyes..

the guitar sending this heavenly tunes..

fingers jumping from chord to chord..

dancing..

laughing..

"come on and dance with me tonight"

my heart pumped so damn hard.

"tie me up with your arms"

"make me smell your presence"

"make me touch your feelings"

12 o'clock..

"I have to leave"

"Nooo.."

"I really have to"

"then make a promise that you will be back again"

"I promise.."

she left..

Silent tears..

calling her everynight..

praying..

asking..

and wishing..

for one look..

one single look in those black eyes again..

"romanza..that was her name!!!"

I love my baby

I love my baby
8 February 2007


i love my baby

she is the source of my joy

yeah i love my lady

she will be the mother of my little boy

i dream of her

playing in the rain

cooking my dinner

my love is her aim

yeah i love my baby

she is my pride and joy

she know how to make me crazy

i am her little baby boy

in my embrace, dancing togther

lighting candles, drinking wine

she gonna support me forever

i am gonna love her for all time

for all the love in her eyes

for all the passion in her dreams

there will never be any lies

there will never be any games

i love my baby

yeah i love my girl

lighting my life forever

she is my crazy glowing pearl

The Crowd

The Crowd
15 August 2006


faces..

strange faces..

random..

thats all what I see..

thousands and thousands of unheard screams..

thousands and thousands of fallen dreams..

Behold!

said the jester..

its the time of the broken heart song..

the little girl screamed..

"no mommy"

"dont let them bury the sun"

the sun is about to rise..

we have to escape..

run! run for your life..

fade to black..

a fist of anger..

break through the ground..

a moan of a wounded child..

"hush! hush my baby dont you cry"

why?

where?

when?

ideas..

crap..

can you tell?

his eyes dropped a tear..

a tear of fire..

burning his face..

faces..

strange faces..

trying to escape..

from what? I cant figure!

maybe from the cruel past!

maybe from the savage future!

I can hear the guitar..

yeah its filling my ears..

am dissolving..

am dissolving..

am dissolving in the crowd!

SCENE02 :: ECHO IN THE DARK

SCENE02 :: ECHO IN THE DARK
29 December 2006

soft lights..

candels..

he enters the room walking softly..

she was there facing the mirror..

looking to that image of her..

checking how much the time messed up with her face..

its been years..

long years..

cold..

dark..

lonely..

but she survived..

he came near to her right shoulder..

he bent gently towards her ears..

he whispered..

"I am back"she kept looking to that woman in the mirror..

"oh sweety,.."

a tear droped from her left eye..

"my grandma left me that veil for my wedding night"she picked her hands up to fix it on her hair..

"she made it with her own hands"

he looked to the embroidery details on the veil..

"its beautiful isnt it" she said in a weak voice..

"come babe, its ok now, am here"

he put his hands on her shoulders and turned her slowly to finally face him..

her eyes were full of tears..

they were like sparkling in these soft lights..

she looked to him in the eyes..

"do you know honstly!"

"yes my heart used to beat for you"

"yes I dreamed of being yours, and you being mine"

she moved away slowly from between his arms..

she moved towards the big iron window..

she hold with her right hand the rusty bars of the window..

"and time passed.."she moved her head slowly towards him..

"and you coming now.."

a tear droped..

"and am compelled to tell you NO!"

his eyes opened wide..

she looked away through the window..

"I waited for you all my life, and you were away"

her fist was squzzing the rusty bars..

"it was my right to meet someone new.."

"it was my right.."

"the story is over"

silence..

she looked down her feet..

"and there is nothing left except silence"

he moved his head in annoyed way..

"but i came.."

she ran towards him and put her hands gently on his mouth..

"you came late, and days do not wait.."

"you came to say it, and how much i prayed to hear it from you, but now please dont say it.."

"who would start after the end, after the days has passed and eaten everything in its way.."

the lights are slowly fading down..

"I am sorry"..

an echo in the dark.

SCENE01 :: THE PROMISE

SCENE01 :: THE PROMISE
15 December 2006

"i need a promise"

"ask me what you want"

"are you sure?"

"yes, ask me anything, i'll do it"

speed..

"slow down, you are going too fast"

"dont worry I know what am doing"

the curve is coming closer..

"its a big curve, you are not ready for it yet"

"for you i will do anything"

she said she have faith in me..

she said she knew my secret powers..

I gave her the promise..

I took it serious..

"here we go, be ready"

"no no not yet"

"its now or never"

fade to black..

red lights flashing..

"mayday, mayday"

the radio buzzed..

"we got a hero down, I reply we got a hero down"

ambluance siren in my ears..

loudly raising..

its too loud now..

i'm going deaf..

no light..

i am light..

lighter than before..

it feels good..

it feels great..

"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah"

am falling, falling heavy..

"Help"I screamed..

I raised my hands towards her hands..

her hands wasnt there..

dark and empty..

that was the place..

am alone..

am all alone..

where did she go?

i dont know..

The Restaurant (Short Stories)

The Restaurant
At The End Of The Universe

(Short Stories Based on True Events)

(10.November.2005)

***

As my leg first stepped in that restaurant I felt it, I knew it, that I won't get out from here, unless with me, hundred stories to tell.

Table One:

He. Looking in her eyes, trying to realize, trying to understand, trying to believe that all of this is real, that all of this is not a nightmare, it’s a fact, happening right now.
She. Playing with her hair, trying to escape from this boring and silly situation, thinking of how cute is Hossam, that awesome guy she met last week, and how nice and rich he is, besides his sports car, she is just in love with convertible tops.

He: do you mean its no use of my words?
She: try to forget and live with that fact.

He. Remembering how they reached that far, memories begin to hit his mind, like million of racing cars running and racing in his head.
3 years ago, fuck, I didn’t notice, they gone too fast, I feel its like from 2 weeks, damn time. He whispered in his mind.
I can see it, that scene of us, I remember, I remember.
The day was 10 August 2002, I still remember.
I see it all clear now.

He: I can't lie to you.
She: what do you mean?
He: believe me it’s the best for us.
She: I can't understand you.
He: baby we cant be together anymore, I can't be the hero of your movie.
She: is this for real?
He: I tried, I swear, I tried so hard, so hard that it hurts me, right now.
She: stop it please, you are killing me.
He: its over for us, I don’t feel that I love you anymore.
You pushed me away with your acts, you know how to make me go mad, and I told you million and million times before, but it seems you weren’t listening me at all.
She: no please, don’t leave me, I swear I will change, just give me a chance and you will see, I can do anything for you, just don’t leave me and go.
He: I cant, I say I don’t love you anymore; I don’t want hurt you more than that, please understand.
She: do you mean its no use of my words?
He: try to forget and live with that fact.

Oh shit, it's for real, it's for real.
I can't believe it, the same words, the same situation, but the characters swapped, she took my role, and I took hers.

He: do you mean it's impossible? Does this mean that my eyes don’t affect on you anymore?
She: please don’t continue.
He: can I ask you for a last request?
She: go ahead.
He: can I cry between your arms just for a little while.
He: what hurts me like hell fire, and give pain all the time striking my heart, body, and soul, is not because you are telling me we can't be together anymore, what really make me suffer, is that all what used to be between us, will be between you and somebody else, not me.
She: big boys don’t cry.

She. Stood up, opened her hand case, small black one, with read hand made draw of a broken heart. She took some money and dropped them on the table, and left.

Table Two:

They. Two girls at the last years of twenties. She1 blonde, long hair, white face, small lips and a sharp chin.
She2 brunette, curly wavy long hair, brown with light streaks. A cute face with thick lips and a pointed nose.

She1: release your mind, set your soul free, don’t think about bullshit anymore, live for your self, live your nights.
She2: am trying. But it's hard.
She1: forget who forgets you, which is not what you wish for; no matter how much your heart tell you that he is the only real love, and that he is the absolute joy.
She2: I gave him my life, but he didn’t care.
She1: don’t ever go back to his arms. Be strong. Hide his love and never show it again. Those years are lost and they won't ever come back. Whatever you tried, no matter how much you have been to pain. Why you want to go back and suffer, why do you want to continue a love with no start from the beginning? Why do you want to be in pain? A pain with no end.
And enough of heartache, tomorrow days will fly away, and one day you will sit down and remember with smile on your face, wondering how you done this. How silly.

She2. Closing her eyes slowly, like she is pulling all the memories back, she can see his face smiling in his magical way, his acts, and his way of living, everything about him.

He stole my soul; he took it with him when he kissed for the first time. My lips on his.
What can be more delicious than this? His whispers in my ears. His finger tips cuddle mine, walking in the street beside him feeling all the secure in this world. He is my hero. But now he is away, he is so mean to leave me like this, why didn’t he felt me?
She thought.

She1: honey or sugar?

Table Three:

She. Is the only one I truly loved, from the bottom of my heart. I never doubt about her. I never felt anyone like how I felt her; I thought she is mine, when she was for everybody.
I didn’t understand her from the beginning. The blame is not for her, it's my fault, its me who must be blamed. Shame on me for believing her eyes.

He smiled a sad smile. He took a sip from his glass of coffee. Pulled out a cigarette from his pack. He took a deep breath of the cigarette. Rubbed his forehead.
His eyes fell on a couple. They looked so sweet in his eyes, the way they look to each other and laugh, living the real moment which take their breath away.

I loved you like no one. He whispered, imagining as if she is sitting with him.
I remember those nights, when you were sleeping between my arms, taking my breath away, with every breath you take. Looking to you, watching you all the time has more pleasure than any pleasure can be. The way you made me feel about my self, the way I used to be. Those best days of my life. The glory nights as Scorpions sing.

What hurts me so much, the thought of me loving you while you don’t have any feeling for me, what kills me every night, the memory of you cheating me, when you used to be between my arms making me believe that you are my queen, and I am your king.

But alas, the kingdom was fake, walls of illusions used to make me live blind, believing in a fairy tale.
All I have now is an empty room, echo felling the place, fading in and out, making me going crazy.

I can't take it any more, I can't.

Love is life. I used to read in love poems. Love can mend your life, but it also can break your heart.

I like winter, the gray color, you took the colors from my life when you went away. I still smell your fragrance on my skin. I wish I can scream all that out. It's just tears and rain.

How I wish I could forget, save my soul, from drowning. In the black ocean of hate, pain and anger.
Why?

Table Four:

He. Holding her hands in a gentle way. Looking in her eyes, with a look filled of care and kindness.

He: you are beautiful.

She. Looking in his eyes, playing with her fingers between his fingers. Trying to hide how blushed and shy she is. You can tell that she is in deep love with him as soon as your eyes fell on her.

She: you make me beautiful.
He: I have good news.
She: please.
He: I finished my papers. I now have to collect the money of the ticket.
She: you still decided on leaving.
He: it's for our future.
She: I am trying to believe this but when I think of how much I will miss I say it can't ever be for our future.
He: you know that life is not fair, it don't give us all what we need. We have to go on our way and fight. Being what we want or die trying.
She: I understand.
He: I want to make you a wedding night, like no night ever has been, or will be again. I want to see you in this white dress. With white flowers in your hands, telling the whole world that from this night you are totally mine, in front of GOD, people and the whole universe.
She: I want to be the mother of your childrens. I want to have something yours growing inside me.
He: we will live in happiness ever after as they say in fairy tales.
She: I love you.
He: I want to go tomorrow to the embassy, I need to finish somethings as fast as I can. I fear there is no time.
She: do you want me to wake you up early?
He: yeah call me at 7.
She: where you gonna stay when you reach there?
He: I don’t know yet, all what am gonna do is to go direct to Osama and he will take care of everything else.
She: 3 calls a day, one at the morning as soon as you wake up, two when you take your lunch, three at night so the last voice I hear is yours before I go to sleep, to make my dreams more beautiful.
He: I won't forget.
She: don’t look to any girls there. Respect me. As I respect you.
He: I can't see anyone except you, can anyone taste something sour after he been eating cream de la cream.
She: your beautiful words make me lose my mind. I am going to miss them so much.
He: I will write you a letter every day. 365 a year.
She: take care of your health. Don’t catch cold there, cause cold makes you suffer baby. I know.
He: I don’t know who will take care of me after you been taking all the care of me.
She: save money baby and don’t waste it on presents and that stuff. We need to marry.
He: I will live with the least as I can. I am on a mission. I know.
She: is there are places you can hang out there?
He: yeah. I think so. I used to hear that 5 miles west of the city lies one of the biggest entertainment clubs in the world.
She: have fun baby but don’t get too much fun that can spoil you.
He: don’t you trust me?
She: I trust you on my life.
He: tonight my mom will get me half of the money.
She: I can get you some by tomorrow.
He: no way. You know me.
She: baby we are one. Don’t say this. Don’t make me sad.
He: you know me. Please don’t make me go mad.
She: I just want to help as much as I can. If I didn’t do all my best for you, then to whom I shall do?
He: your existence in my life is the best help I got in my life.
She: you go and be sure that there is a lonely heart waiting for you with all its might.
He: and you be sure that the other part of this heart is going to make it and come back to you with what we always dreamed of.
She: goodbye beautiful days, and welcome lonely nights.
He: lonely nights, I gotta fight for you.
She: I am going to kiss you goodnight every night.
He: don’t ever leave me, I am down on my knees asking you.
She: who can leave the love of her life. Unless she is dead.
He: may god give you health and long life, so we grow old togther. Laughing at each others body.
He: waiter!, check please.

Table Five:

He. Preparing to tell her that he is going to dump her. In a polite way. He wants to gain her as sister instead of losing her as a lover.
She. Is totally break out. Nervous, angry. A complex mix of feelings, hate and passion.

He: am sorry...
She: don’t be.
He: I just want to tell you…
She: I know, I know you want to leave me.
He: its not like that, its…
She: it’s the silliest joke I ever heard.
He: don’t you remember…
She: I don’t want to remember, I am feeling that you fear leaving me, oh please don’t worry, leave me, and don’t continue your words.
He: I just want us to be friends.
She: as you wish, if that’s your will, then go and leave me, it’s a loss for me to love you, I wasted years with you, a liar, I believed you, go, walk away.
He: you are making a big thing of it.
She: you wasted all what I have, body, soul, heart.

She looking away, trying to escape from his eyes. To not drop a tear falling from her eyes.

She: you think you are going to kick me out of paradise? Hah, you will set me free, when you leave, you gonna mercy on me, you will make me cure from my wounds and depression, it's ok now go and walk away, and never look back in the same way.

She: I wasted my time with you, I gave you all my life. I drew your face inside my heart. I used to say I can put my life on the line for you.
She: I found that who loves you, suffers the worst pain ever existed, the real break of the heart, you are a heart breaker, I can see it clear now in your eyes. I want to tell you a word in my heart now.
He: tell me all what you want, I understand.
She: fuck you.
He: I didn’t want to lose you, I thought we can be together but in another shape. I understand you, I know you, totally, I can feel you when you are happy, angry, laughing, sad or even depressed. I know how you think. I just wanted us to be close friends, help each other in going through this life. I thought it won't end like this. I thought if we weren’t lovers, that doesn’t mean that I lost you.
She: why are you making this for me? You are killing me slowly.

She. Put her face between her hands. Trying to hide it from him, she don’t want him to see her crying. But there is nothing she can do, she lost control, she is bleeding.

He: I hope you calm down, and think about it. I will be always there for you if you need me.
She: go to hell!

The Night Animals (Short Play)

The Night Animals

Short Play.
(10.June.2005)
***

"A wooden rectangular bench in a main garden .. tree .. time is afternoon .. the girl is sitting on the bench and her back
facing the audience .. in the 30's of her age .. with long brown hair and a light detials in her face, makes her look cute ..
waiting in worry & concern someone ..
"Adam" enters .. in the middle of the 20's .. slim .. moving light .. brown hair .. un-arranged clothes .. he stops to
lean on the tree .. he seems to mumble with some words .. as if he is whispering to him-self .. then he recognize that the
girl sits there .. he gets close."

***
Adam : Excuse me ma'am, can I have a seat?
Eve : (she moves to the left slightly to make wide)
Adam : Thanks.
(After a while of quiet he recognize she is in worry)
sometimes..
it happens to us..
that we fear or to have a little un-comfort for some people..
to be anxious from their appearance..
to be worry from some moves or words come from them..
to be more tension when we have to spend sometime with strangers..
that's what happens to me (Silence)
does it happen to you too?
Eve : (worried and not in a mood to talk) sometimes.
Adam : sometimes! .. that's really sensible.
(the girl moves a little towards the left to be far with tact)
Does it happening now?
Eve : No.
Adam : No! (wondering)
Eve : I mean a little (trying to read a book with her)
Adam : understood .. understood.
(trying to light a cigarette .. and finally he get it done)
This is a really good time..
Now days it's really good when we run away from those deaf buildings..
What's more beautiful than touching this grass!
What's more beautiful than this soft breath or air touching the hair..
of a beautiful woman!
a woman reading..
Oh what a nice cigarette!
It's so hard for a sensible guy to bear those dumb buildings!
(the girl starts to watch him stealthily while she pretends reading ..
Adam stands up walks slowly around the bench while he puts his hands
behind his back .. his voice comes little high singing an old song)
I say as a dove comes near me..
Oh my dear neighbor..
if you know my case..
will a prisoner laugh and free one cries?
will a sad smile and happy one moan?
(he sits down, he find a tiny string coming out from his shirt ..
he lights a match and burn the string from the middle to remove it ..
she begins to watch him while her worry about him is going away ..
and curiosity came instead of it ..
and a smile had drawn on her face ..
Adam recognize this suddenly)
Adam : Zein taught me this.
Eve : Zein?
Adam : sadness stamped on the heart.
What do you read ma'am?
Eve : (Blushing) Nothing .. just about this serial killer.
Adam : Serial Killer! .. that's really sensible.
(Silence again)
do you fear me, ma'am?
Eve : Never.
Adam : then why you run away?
Eve : run away! (wondering) run away from what?
Adam : from a certain thing..
Sure .. sure
there is no woman may come and sit in the garden..
to read the news about the killer.
Eve : Really!
I'm waiting my boyfriend.
Adam : (Clapping his hands with delight)
that's really sensible.
a woman with your beauty won't ever run away..
but she sits, until a man comes to her..
that's really sensible too.
me too..
along ago I used to have my woman..
an amazing woman..
we used to not sit on the bench .. never .. never..
we used to sit on the grass..
she used to lean on this tree..
me too..
I used to sleep, resting my head on her legs, like a baby, smoking my cigarette..
she used to sing to me (he acts the scene to her)
I don't remember this song..
I think it has these words .. "You and I .. I lose control".
Eve : (worry has just gone and she begins to smile for every thing happens)
but he didn't come till now!
Adam : He won't ever find a woman like you in this world.
Eve : flirtation or compliment?
Adam : She used to get naked for me.
Eve : (Blushing) Please.
Adam : (moving to her with a fist full of grass)
Does my lady knows how soft & wet..
this grass can be when night comes?
In the darkness .. when we are alone and naked!
(he throws the grass in his hands on her legs, and he bend to get another fist of grass..
while she tremble standing to get away)
Eve : Please .. don't speak .. I am not your woman .. please.
Adam : (trying to be nice with her)
That was along ago..
In this dusty past..
when I was a stud, In love with all women..
but she tamed me..
and I became only for her (with pain)
then I lost her, and the cursed days came..
Eve : (she comes back and sits again, now they are sitting back to back on the bench)
why he didn't show up till now?
I won't stay longer..
Adam : She used to wait for me if I didn't show up.
Eve : He chose to travel, and he left me alone.
Adam : She used to blow-up laughing out loud until she falls on the grass..
like a pack of fragrant..
Eve : he spoiled my dreams in the house..
Adam : She was adorable when she used to sleep and lick my chest like a kitten..
Eve : We can't stay in the streets all the time..
Adam : She loved to wake-up all the night and create her own imaginations..
saying this world is just a dream..
Eve : Time is passing..
Adam : life is passing..
Eve : love is passing .. and there is nothing left except scolding,
from my mother and her husband..
Adam : she left her family for me..
Eve : (Suddenly stands up impatient)
I won't be patient anymore..
Adam : (Suddenly recognize that she suddenly stands up)
What's wrong my lady?
Eve : Nothing..
nothing..
enough .. I am leaving..
Adam : to the installed trap?
to the lost life?
Eve : don't ask me .. I know .. I don't know..
Adam : I know what you are carrying inside .. this major worry..
let's have a seat..
Eve : Have a seat?!
Adam : and let's cut this bad time..
Eve : the trap time..
leave me please .. Mister..
Adam : "Adam" that's my name.
Eve : I am "Eve".
Adam : beautiful name..
Eve : with an Ugly luck..
Adam : my lady..
we live upon illusions..
every one of us chooses the best illusion for him/her and lives with it and for it..
so if we can change the illusions..
then we can change too..
Eve : illusions?! (wondering while she is sitting)
Adam : that's my opinion.
Eve : I don't know .. but I ..
Adam : excuse me..
our view to the world changes according to the chosen illusion..
Eve : never heard of that!
you amaze me mister Adam.
Adam : Do my lady know the night of animals?
Eve : what?!
Adam : this is their park (pointing to a place out the stage)
Eve : I know.
Adam : Do my lady fond of seeing those animals?
Eve : sure.
Adam : at night?
Eve : (with disapproval and wondering) to go in at night?
Adam : exactly.
Eve : (moves a little away) you must be crazy!
Adam : Do my lady believes what she sees about the animals?
Eve : I don't understand!
Adam : that's sensible .. really sensible.
Eve : how?
Adam : there is no woman like you know that the animals at day are so different than
animals when night comes..
Eve : I can't get it .. I don't understand..
Adam : but I understand..
I tried the darkness and silence with animals..
as this night turns into ashes, coming down slowly..
until we drown in it .. and then sound and light would taste something else..
My lady .. I saw it .. the fear, the death of desire in the eye of the captured animal..
The cracked voice becomes murmuring, a call with fire for a larger space..
in a certain direction..
these cages become great big hands for the hunters..
My Lady .. I saw it with my own eyes .. the sadness of the animal..
Eve : that's amazing..
Adam : to share with it my worries..
belonging to the honesty, the sadness, and the endless longing to the freedom..
oh .. if only my lady can see those eyes..
those eyes which miss so much all this universe..
miss so much .. running, hunting and breaking the cages..
those eyes which dream of certain thing..
more beyond this world..
those wild eyes..
Eve : (she stands up quietly, she sits down on the grass, and he with hesitation puts his head
on her legs (thigh) .. smoking a cigarette)
But I don't know anything about you?
Adam : About me!
Does my lady know anything about this world?
Eve : Sure .. some things.
Adam : I am a part of this world.
Eve : I didn't get it..
Adam : to be happy in this world..
we should have some knowledge and understanding .. some ..
and it can be enough..
Eve : Really! (she recognize that she is late)
here you are, making me late..
Adam : home?
Eve : (in clear sadness) the trap.
Adam : why don't you stay with me?
Eve : Where?
Adam : on that awesome grass..
Eve : on the grass?
Adam : with adjusting the illusion.
Eve : (Dreaming until the end of the play) The illusion.
Adam : this awesome grass would be a house..
Eve : house!
Adam : and when the night falls..
Eve : the night!
Adam : we can climb the wall of their park..
to watch and travel among animals..
Eve : Animals!
Adam : behind the wall, the grass, the light of full moon, the joy of freedom..
Eve : Freedom!
Adam : to hear these whispers and taken breath, to look into the animal's eye..
Eve : the animal's eye!
Adam : (he stands and begins dancing around the wooden bench, around "Eve", around the tree,
and while she laughs out loud, she begins to wail hardly .. a moment of silence ..
darkness falls .. we see nothing on the stage)
Adam : (a voice from the darkness) lets go..
Eve : (a voice from the darkness) lets go..
Adam : (a voice from the darkness) a wonderful night..
Eve : (a voice from the darkness) a wonderful man..
Adam : (a voice from the darkness) What can be more beautiful than this moment "Eve"?
Eve : (a voice from the darkness) lets then catch the lost life and time..
Adam : (a voice from the darkness) here it is .. this is the wall..
Eve : (a voice from the darkness) Hold me .. carry me..
Adam : (a voice from the darkness) Come-on..

(a sound of a body fell on the grass .. voices of moaning and laughs)

The End.