Once upon a
time, there was a woman called Sabra, she was married and had lived happily with
her husband. Time went by , Sabra got diveroced, this big and tragic event caused her a lot of pain and
suffering, culturally it is such big
shame and dishonour for women to get
divorced. In a culture managed
and controlled by the masculin society , to
be divorced is considered as an
excution for women ; who get compltely neglected and rejected by the whole society .
Without
finding anything to do and full of
hopless and disperation , Sabra
left her husband home to the
direction of her family home, crossing the forest, Sabra was really sad and
so depressed. Suddenly and on her way , she met a big enormous lion. Sabra felt
so much fear and she stepped back, but
the lion noticed her deep scare so he started
his talk : ‘’ Do not feel scared, Iam not
going to harm you, but I wonder how a
woman can have the courage to cross the forest, knowing there might be a danger
can threaten her life ?
Sabra felt
a bit safe inside and answered him : an animal is safer than a human.
The lion
liked the words of Sabra but he did not show his sympathy , so he conituned
saying : Don’t you know that I am the king of this forest ? don’t you know that human and aniamls should
respect each otehrs, and their limits. We never come to your world. So why you
are coming to mine ?
- Forgive
me Mr lion, But I am so hurt and hopless, my husband did
divorce me, and it is really such big
disaster, what I shall do now, Iam a weak woman, I am being rejected now from
my society ...
-The lion
says astonishing : Oh, why rejected ? in
my society, no on is rejected ?
-In my
world, when women get divorced, they ‘d better seek to commit suicide ..it is
so unfair for women in my community,
men can end up the lives of their wives by only one word from them spoken
at moments of anger and bitter, it is the word of divorce .. Do you see
such unjustice, do you beleive that
woman’s distiny is between the hand of a man, can play with it as much as he
wants..
-The lion
felt sorry and deep compassion for sabra, so as a noble worrior he said to Sabra and his eys sparkling : Do you
stay with me Sabra ? I will be your man, your protector and your worrior .. I
will not let any one cause you any harm, no one !
Sabra was
so amazed and found no words to say, but
she smiled and murmured : yes, I am
happy to hear you saying that, I would love to stay with you serving you and
taking care of you ..
Time passes
by and life seems so beautiful and happy with Sabra and the lion . They
both were enjoying their life by showing
so much care and tenderness to eah
others, which led to increase the love
between them, and they can’t leave each others . One day, the lion comes hom
after the work, but he found his wife Sabra crying and weeping , he run to her
,asking : what s wong with you Sabra, are you fine ?
-Yes, Iam
fine, nothing important !
-How is nothing important ,and I find my wife
who I love her so much, crying, for sure it is so important for me, I care for
you sweetheart .. what s wrong with you ?
-Yes,
I am suffering now, Iam happy here, but
I miss my family so much, I did not see them for two years, I can’t resist this
any more ..
The lion
smiled and said : it is fine, don’t cry for this please, tomorrow I will take
you to your family home , but don’t cry !
Sabra felt
happy and turned to her husband saying :
oh really, thank you darling ..
In the
morning, Sabra and the lion woke up so early and they start their long trip to
Sabra’s family , after a week of walk and
tiredness, Sabra and the lion arrived to sabra’s parent house.
Her family
could not beleive their eyes, seeing their daughter for the first time after
two years, they haven’t heard anything
from her, since a long time . So they
have celebrated her visit for seven days and six nights.. Sabra stayed there
surrounded by her family’s care for seven days .. and in the last day, before the lion comes to
take her home to the forest, she stayed with her mom talking , and she said : I
don’t want to go home, I really miss you but Iam married now, I should follow
my husband .
The mother after a moment of silence , she said to her
daughter : I can’t beleive that he is so perfect in this way to you; are you serious that nothing is wrong with him ?
Sabra, kept
silent for a moment then said : well, he is
not perfect of course, but I hate so much his smell when he gets close
to me, especially the smell of his breath ..
At that
moment, the lion was in front of the
door, ready to knock in order to take his wife back to their home in the
forest, he was so happy that because he was so in love with his wife, But he
was deeply shocked to hear his wife
talking about him in this way . He stood
immobile in front of the door then he started
weeping ... he had walked a way few metres , took a
place under a tree’s shadow for taking his breaths and feel the peace again
into his heart ..
After a while, the lion knocked the door and
he asked permission to take his wife back to their home in the forest ... and this
what happened, Sabra walked joyfully with her husband the lion, and she was
sining and enjoying the road, happy
and feeling so cared for , but
the husband kept silent the whole trip, seven days during their trip and the lion was not
talking with Sabra, reaching their distination, Sabra felt so impatient and so surpirsed about the sudden
change of her husband, so she started
saying : what s wrong with you man ? why you are silent the whole trip ? can I know what s up with you ?
The lion says after a moment of thinking :
‘’ May I ask you something ?
Sabra
answers saying : “ yes, if I can do it, I would love to serve you !
-Yes, you
can do it, I want you to take the ax and hit me on the head !
-What ? are
you crazy ? no way, I would never do something like that .
-If you don’t do it, I will allow myself to
eat you and make you my lunch !
Sabra felt so
surpirsed and she could see
the resistance of her husband, his eyes
was sparkling and he seemed so confident about his request , Sabra coud feel for the first time
this deep fear , so she found nothing but to surrender to his will. Sabra took
an ax and she started hitting him on the head, the lion felt down and his blood
was all around .. When sabra saw all of that blood, she rushed to her
husband, crying and asking him why he
did let her do that ... without undrestanding the intention of the lion from
his request. As a good wife, Sabra spent nights and days beside her husband, nursing
and feeding him . After a good while,
the lion started to heal and get cured
from his blessures .. and Sabra was still ignorant why he asked her to do that, so
when she assured that he is fine,
Sabra decided to ask him and to give her an explanation . she said : “ I don’t
undrestand why you aswked me to hit you on the head, I could kill you.”
The lion answered back without hesitation : “
you are not strong enough to kill a lion, I was sure that you would not, and if
you did, that it was a risk I wanted so much to
take it.”
-
yes
, but why ? why was all of that ?
-
I
wanted to show you that the blessures can get healed even after a long time,
but hurting and breaking someone ‘s heart , nothing will heal it, not even the
time”
Sabra felt so much surprised and she could not
undrestand what the lion wants to say ,asking him what she did do, she had started
to feel the scare : what did I do to you ? how
did I hurt your feelings ? I love you , I would never think to do that
for you .
The lion said, after a moment : I heard your
conversation with your mother, I heard you complaining from my smell and my
breath ?
Sabra, felt as she was a frozen piece, she
could not say anthing at the moment, so the lion finished his saying : “ Oh
Sabra, don’t you know that blessures get
healed , but the wounds of the heart, will always remain the same . It will
never get cured even if time goes by
...” Then without any chance given to
her to espcae, the lion jumped to Sabra, and ate her ..
As a conclusion to blessure some one, they may get healed with time, but the wound of the heart will always remains as long as
the person is alive .. Not because it is hard to forgive or overcome but it is because people
will never forget how you let them feel,wether good or bad ...
The End...
