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The Wall
- Khan Faizan
AA in English for Professional Communication (CCCU)- year 1
He stares at his wall, covered with memories. Memories of the loved ones in front of him. Of the happy times that they once had. Now nothing but memories. Memories of the ones that left. Memo- ries of the ones that had died. Photographs of memories placed on this wall of his. As he stares every morning, and stares every night at the wall, he takes off a photo, a memory every time as the days go by. One by one, a photo comes off and he reminisces those memories, then rips them apart. As the days go by, the photos on the wall decrease. The memories are slowly forgotten, picture by picture, piece by piece.
This wall of his, with one memory left. One more photograph, the rest left in shreds. This one mem- ory, this photo of his mother. With the family but without her lover. The lover was his father whom he had never met. The responsibility of the father was on his mother’s shoulders. Now that she’s gone, the memory has to be forgotten too. His tears roll down onto the photo. He rips it, then real- izes that there aren’t any more photos left. No more memories left. Depressed with no reason to live anymore. No job, no friends. He stares at his shadow on the empty wall, hearing voices to end it. He grabs a chair and a rope, places the chair in front of the wall. He climbs onto the chair and places the rope around his neck. He stares at this shadow one more time as tears roll down, thinking about his sad life, about how weak he is. He finally gets the courage to jump off the chair. He squirms around, struggling to breath. One final tear rolls down as life starts to leave his body, still staring at the wall which once was filled with photographs of his memories.
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