“Ashes and Dust: Aisha’s Lament”
The wind carried the scent of dry earth and wild thyme as Aisha guided her children over the rocky hills. They walked slowly, their shadows long in the early morning sun. The cemetery lay quiet beyond the bend, rows of sun-bleached stones standing like silent witnesses of the past.
Her youngest, Lila, clutched a small bundle of wildflowers, picked with solemn fingers. Omar, the oldest, kept watch on the horizon, where black smoke sometimes curled like a serpent into the sky. Even here, even in this sacred silence, the sky spoke of fire.
Aisha’s sandals scraped against the dust as she reached her father’s grave — a simple stone, a name etched with love and longing.
She knelt.
Her hands trembled.
“Father,” she whispered, her voice brittle with tears. “You left too early. You left before you could see the world tear itself apart.”
The children stood behind her, their eyes wide but quiet. They had learned not to interrupt their mother’s weeping. It came in waves, like the desert wind — fierce, then still, then fierce again.
Aisha pressed her forehead to the cool stone.
“I’m tired of being strong,” she cried. “I’m tired of waiting for miracles. Why did you go and leave me in a world that no longer makes sense?”
She struck the earth lightly with her fists, a child once again before her father. “Why aren’t you here? I need your voice, your calm. There are fires in the north, and missiles in the sky, and they say Iran and Israel have begun to devour each other.”
A silence settled, heavy and sacred.
Then came the distant rumble. Not thunder. Not this time. Explosions — far off, yet too close.
Omar looked up. “Mama… is it starting?”
Aisha rose, wiping her face with her scarf. “No,” she said, voice steady now. “Not if we still believe.”
She took her children’s hands and turned toward the rising sun, its light blurred by smoke. There, in the broken hush of a troubled morning, they began to pray.
Not in whispers, but aloud.
“O Lord, turn the hearts of men to mercy. Blind the eyes of drones, and still the wings of war. Spare the children on both sides of the border. Spare the mothers.”
They prayed as fires lit the horizon — tongues of flame dancing in Iran, in Israel, in cities no longer named aloud.
“Let not our grief be doubled,” Aisha pleaded, arms raised. “Let there be peace. Let this not be the end of the world.”
And though no one answered, the wind paused, and the earth held its breath — as if listening.
For in a world burning with anger, the cry of a mother might still be the last sacred sound.
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