Raïhanyat,
Moroccan Writer
Mohamed Saïd Raïhani’s Website
WAITING FOR
THE MORNING
(A Collection of Short Stories)
(Stories versus Songs)
TEXT 2:
When I
was younger, so much younger than today,
I never needed anybody's help in any way.
But now these days are gone, I'm not so self assured,
Now I find I've changed my mind and opened up the doors.
Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
And I do appreciate you being round.
Help me, get my feet back on the ground,
Won't you please, please help me.
And now my life has changed in oh so many ways,
My independence seems to vanish in the haze.
But every now and then I feel so insecure,
I know that I just need you like I've never done before.
Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
And I do appreciate you being round.
Help me, get my feet back on the ground,
Won't you please, please help me.
"Help", a song by The Beatles
THE ADVICE:
Just lend me your ear: My long experience with illness, surgical
operations and doctors’ explanations taught me a great deal on human body
secrets. Everybody has an appendix. But a harmless
appendix...
You have to know that if appendix hurts, you will have it scissored quite easily because it is only an old bodily organ
with totally no function at all at our present time...
Listen
to me: I really know the secret of your uneasiness and loneliness among us,
your beloved clansmen: you stick to appendix-like beliefs, very old kinds of
values with no function at our present time....
Will
you allow me to help you out of your dilemma?
Can
you just open your mind’s door to me so that I can give you very practical
lessons which will surely make of you the man of the era, the master of your
destiny?...
LESSON NUMBER ONE, SUBECT: ANGER
2-Be quiet!
1-...
2-Don’t you know what you’re saying?
1-...
2-Look around you!
1-...
2-Look how people hide away their faces in their hands, shamefully?
1-What have I to do with their embarrassment? I am angry!
2-Choose your anger glossary, that’s what you’ll have to do.
1-How can I do?! It’s anger!
2-You’ll
have to learn how to do it.
LESSON
NUMBER TEN, SUBECT: JOY
1-...!
2-Be quiet!
1-...
2-What’s this excitement?
1-I’m laughing...
2-Do you always laugh this way?!
1-What’s wrong with my laughter?
2-It doesn’t suit you...
1-...
2-Smile!
1-It’s stronger than smiling!
2-You’ll
have to learn how to do it.
LESSON
NUMBER ONE THOUSAND,
SUBECT: CERTITUDE
1-...!
2-Be quiet!
1-...
2-What’s that you’re saying?
1-My opinion...
2-You’re expressing your opinion or
declaring your death sentence? Can’t you see
the kinds of rocks in people’s hands?
1-...
2-They’ll stone you to death...
1-Me !...
2-Now, be brave!
1-What am I to do?...
2-Withdraw your opinion before it’s too late!
1-I offended nobody…
2-Come
on! Do it! Quick!
AFTER THE END OF THE THOUSAND AND ONE LESSON:
1-For Heaven’s sake, don’t leave me all by
myself now that I have grown used to been guided and handled...
2-Why?
You have taken great benefit from the courses and become a sociable person
and...
1-Please, I no longer know what to want or say or do ,
nor what to advance or postpone...
2-This happen now and then to everybody...
1-My sense of error is sharper than any other time. I feel it impossible
to exist from now on without somebody to instruct me and guide my life...
2-There’s no need to worry, I’ll always be by your side.
1-And if you happen to be absent?!
2-At that time, you just have to keep
still... till I am back again.
CONTENTS
HOMEPAGE CULTURAL LINKS ONOMASTICS SHORTSTORY ANTHOLOGY
WEBMASTER CRITICISM FRANCAIS ARABIC
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