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Monday, November 30, 2009

The Last Day Of The Prisoner's Life !

This is an interesting story with an important value to learn , that I had read before in Arabic and I translated to English . I wrote this one by my own style of writing , after I added some details and changed some elements . I hope that you would like it and just keep reading it till the end ... !

Before hundreds and hundreds years ago , there was a prisoner who just had one day to live . His death sentence would be done in the early morning of the next day . So could you imagine his feelings and his emotions in that particular night ?! Anyone in this difficult situation would be scared , terrified and he could do anything to survive ! Could you imagine for a second , that you were that one who just had a few hours in the world ?!

This prisoner was kept alone inside an old , giant castle which was full of guards inside and outside to keep an eye on him . He must was a dangerous one , who commited something horrible like a murder , an aspionage , or a crime which might destroy some societies back there , who knows !
 
It had been so many years since he was locked inside this prison , hoping that one day , the king would forgive him and consider all this time spent as an enough punishement . He was really hoping that one day he could go out to start over his life in some place too far from here , where he could live in peace and quiet the rest of his life ! So , this dream might be come to life with the king's offer !

The last day before the death sentence , the king came by to visit the prisoner who was so much surprised and relieved because he had heard that in each time his highness visited someone in the prison , there was a really good chance for the forgiveness ! The prisoner then was brought and stood in front of the king who said : ( So tommorrow is the day that we all in this kingdom have been waiting for ! But , tommorrow could be 100% different for you because you could save your own life by accepting the offer in which you will have another long life ! So listen carefully , this night you will be alone in this castle . It will be free of guards and you will be free to move and search wherever you like inside it until you can find a door that allows you to exit from this prison , so once you find it ,consider yourself a free man who has a life to enjoy ! You've all the night to dig in and of course that me and the guards we will come back tommorrow morning to see the result ! If you didn't find it , you could forget my offer and be well prepared for your big day ! ) Without any another single word , the king , his guards and his entourage turned back and closed the castle's main door .

The prisoner now took a while thinking about what just had happened ! This could be the only chance he had and he must kept it till the end ! (1 , 2 , 3 , now or never ! ) He said to himself , announcing the searh activity ! Because the size of the castle , he organised the mission to many parts so that he could save the time and search everything and everywhere ! He could feel the Adrealine raising up in his blood , but he kept reminding himself to calm and to concentrate because his life was depending on this silly game that the king created and seemed to have so much fun with it ! " Who is he to treat us this way and since when the issue of gaming with people's life was something easy to do ! " He talked to himself with those words from time to time during the search in the big basement which had no sign of any secret or not secret door !
 
Then he went to the first floor , the place where his jail was in , and started to search every three single corner in it . It should be mention that every corner had some kind of painting over the wall . After he had checked the two corners and had pulled them away to see if there was something behind , he went directly to the last corner which was near to the castle's main door . So he pulled away the heavy colorful painting , and finally he found it !
 
He saw a small door in the wall with a tiny brown grab in the center . The prison drow a big smile on his face , thinking that he would finally survive and get out from here , so he quickly opened the door and jumbed inside what looked like a narrow tunnel. He couldn't walk there without a candle because it was dark there and no one knew exactly what could be inside this very old place ; it possibly contained something alive which had been living there before even he was sent here ! Anyway , there was absoulotly no time to think about this things , he had to get in and see what was hidden .
 
The smell of that little place was unbelievable and there were also some mice and another flying insects , but he focused and moved on until he saw something that made him pleased ! He saw a wooden door at the end of this place with the word (EXIT) above it . He opened it directly and threw himself on the other side to see that he was again in the same basement which he had searched and left before with no result ! He really felt sorry that he had spent so much time for nothing actually !
 
He realized now that he should hurry up and work harder than before because there wasn't a plenty of time until his highness would come in the early morning to complete the unfinished game ! Now , he had to search both the second and the third floor and see if he could reach the rough . At these critical moments that he was living it right now , he suddenly discovered how much important the time was and how a moment could save someone's life and change almost everything ! The prisoner kept always reminding himself to focus on what he was doing ! It wasn't really a good time for the philosophy and the logic stuff ; he must find the door which would open a new life for him , so the search went on and on !

During his ups and downs , he found many secret doors and rooms in almost everywhere , but with no result at all ! At the end of all that works and all his efforts , he decided to lay down on his back on the floor , just in front of the castle's main door , closing his tired eyes which hadn't slept since a long time ago , waiting the death gang to appear suddenly soon just like the ghost he always saw in his nightmare ! He decided this time to sleep well , no matter what would wait him later ! Now , it didn't matter to him anymore what would happen after a while !
 
In the early morning , he waked up after having had a peaceful nap to find himself looking hardly to the king - as he had nothing to do except to execute him ! - who said using a sarcastic voice : ( Hope that you slept well in your last night ! Someone didn't take seriously the only chance he had to survive ! I am sure that you looked and searched everywhere here , but you didn't need to do all that ! I guess that you want to know where the door is ! Well there isn't really one that could lead you outside from here , in fact the door has been always in front of your eyes ! If you had well focused last night when we left you here alone , you would have noticed that the castle's main door which has been always in front of you all the time , wasn't locked (closed) !!! So , prisoner , tell us your last words or your last wishes ! ) .

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  • PoetWithCancer's Avatar
    Posted by PoetWithCancer Tue Oct 27, 2009 2:27pm PDT

    Dear Jessem,

    Yes, I can imagine. In fact I very often feel as if I am a prisoner on death row. I sometimes wonder if I did something to deserve this, something I have forgotten about. Then I think: No, no--no one deserves this. I have always opposed the death penalty.

    I know what it is like to face death, and to see doors that appear as if they will lead to life, to a cure; only to find that they will not open, or that open on a dead end. Many, many doors. Many, many locked doors, and mirage-like dead ends.

    And what a cruel king, to play such a cruel deadly joke!

    How I wanted to be a free man, who could have a life to enjoy!

    Bye now.

    --PWC

    aka Mr. Poet

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