Beneath the Lamp
(رعنا تبسم پاشا, Dallas, USA)
He was a firefighter.
It had only been a month since his marriage.
The oil wells of Kuwait caught fire …. he went to extinguish them.
And then he stayed there, became a part of that place.
The fire that broke out back home was no longer visible to him in the glitter of dinars.
The cries wrapped in blazing flames, he could not hear them through the clink of coins.
He did not know …..
that if you don’t extinguish the fire in your own home yourself
Outsiders come to help.
Because not every one knows how to burn quietly,
how to die quietly within themselves.