My Messiah :Love in Damascus - Episode 18
MAY, 2009
Two days later, I went back to that garden and I met that old man. He had scared me at first when he was pointing a revolver at me. I was very scared at first but I didn't run, I knew he won't shoot me at least I was not a thief of something.
'How would an old man with just twelve teeth scare me?' I thought and stood still where I was. I didn't argue with him, I made him perform all his drama and screamed his hell out before I started talking . When he had calm down, he told me to have a sit which I did reluctantly. My eye never left the sight of the revolver even as I sat.
"So what did you want?" He said with a shaky voice
"Nothing much,Pa" I said ready to go straight into the point "I want to lease.... Or probably rent your garden for just an hour" I continued and I could see his reaction. It was like 'who the hell are you to walk into my compound and lease my garden'.
"I find your garden so attractive, it is the perfect spot I needed for what I want to do" I said sharply
"And what is that?" He looked at me sternly ready to get more information. I hesitated for a bit, and thought of it again. Telling the old man what I need his garden for won't change anything.
"Well, I have a girl I like so much and I am looking for a perfect place to make my confession to her, a place to open up my heart to her" I opened up but there was silence for a while.
The old man broke the silence with an heavy guffaw, a boisterous laughter that really got on my nerve
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. I suddenly joined him and I also began to laugh, I never knew what was funny because what I said wasn't funny but I just joined him In laughing.
"Love bird" he announced "you are in love?"
Was I really in love? I really don't know cause I feel am madly in love, so sick in love, crazy in love. I wasn't just in love, guess am dying in love.
"Yes, am in love" I said after a deep thought and the old man clapped. He lowered his glasses to look straight into my eye.
"I have once falling in love.
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. My adventure of love began with Caroline." He said and that name rang a bell in my head. The mechanic had mentioned it. "...We started dating in my second year at the university" he continued his touching story, it was a sad one, a tragedy. I sat down gently listening to the story but never for once have I taken my eyes away from the revolver. The sad story suddenly felt my happy heart with sadness. He admitted he had made a lot of mistakes even the ones that cost him the life of his children. He was dying of loneliness, he had no one to talk to.
".....Caroline fell sick after our kids passed away. She was never the same again after that awful incident....." He said with tears in his eyes
I felt pity for him, I could feel his pain. He was all alone in this world, no one to talk to , no family to chat with. It was a disaster. After a long chat, he agreed to my request and he asked me when I was coming with the girl.
"In two days time" I said
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