The Providence of Becoming

8 min

In 1956, a young boy named Feris Abou Shaaya teased his crush, Abir, while she was hanging clothes in nature, using a little girl to steal her cloth. Little did he know that their time together would be tragically cut short when she was killed in an earthquake. It's my grandfather, he vividly recalls his last moment of youth with my grandmother through his poignant poetry.