Tell Your Father I'm a Muslim

Long Letters

”Don't blame me, Khadijah. Please, no. You know how much I love Maryam. You also know how badly I was hit when Asiyah died.” Isaac begged, holding tightly to his wife's hand, but his heart remained firm, he would never allow David to have Maryam. It never will.

Khaled was still silent behind the wall of the turn of the passage, his tears dripping.

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”Pak.. Ma..! Mary..! Something happened to Maryam.!” Shouted Anggel who suddenly approached with a gasp of breath, ever since

he was looking for Maryam's father and mother.

”What's wrong with Maryam?” mary's father asked in a panic.

”The condition is getting weaker, it is like in a dying state, now the doctor is helping his breathing.” Anggel told a story while sobbing.

”Maryam...!” Maryam's father panicked, they ran straight to Maryam's hospital room.

Khaled who had heard their conversation since, was no less panicked. He ran to Maryam's hospital room.

A doctor and two nurses were working on Maryam. An oxygen hose has been attached to his nasal cavity. Two tools held by the doctor's two hands were placed on Maryam's chest. When the tool was attached to Maryam's chest, her body seemed to lift violently.

”Mary... Mariam... What's wrong with you, son?” shouted Mother.

”Sorry, we beg you all to come out first.” One of the nurses told them to get out.

Leaning on her husband's shoulder, Khadijah walked out of Maryam's room sobbing. Khaled and Anggel went behind them.

The door to the room was then tightly closed. Khaled and Anggel fell silent harboring deep sadness. Their eyes continued to be on the door of Maryam's white room, hoping the doctor would come out and tell her that she was fine.

”Calm down, my wife, Maryam will be fine. We just pray.”

Maryam's father tried to calm his wife.

Maryam's father and mother were still waiting at the door of Maryam's inpatient room. They were unceasingly reciting and praying for Mary to recover, while Khaled continued chanting verse by verse to Mary.

Angel shrinks her tears. He remembered the events before Maryam was dying. At that time Anggel was alone waiting for him, while his parents were still outside, Khaled was not out of nowhere. Anggel saw Maryam's body twitching violently, then suddenly opened her eyes and screamed for David's name.

“Maryam, why are you?” ask Angel to panic at that time.

“I met David. I met him. He took me away, Angel!” Said Maryam who was conscious at that time.

“Praise the name of your Lord, Maryam, and calm yourself,” said Anggel rubbing his forehead.

“Take me paper and pen, Angel. I want to write a letter to David,” pinta Maryam.

Anggel took the book from his school bag.

“Write to me, Angel,” pinta Maryam again.

”Alright, I will write for you,” replied Anggel.

Maryam began to say something and Anggel wrote it down on the paper,

David...

Howareyou? I'm here okay.

Until here, Angel immediately cried. Then he quickly shrank her, not wanting Maryam to know. Then he went back to writing

as Mary continued her sentence.

*Did you miss me?

The fabric of the story we've been through is full of tears, but I'm happy, Dave.

Happy to know you, though,

Happy even though I only felt a day when cycling with you.

Cycling around New York City with you.

I have never felt such great love.

Living at home makes me suffer, Dave.

Sometimes I hate the situation,

Sometimes I want to be like a free-flying bird with nothing to curb,.

But despite living free, the birds always praise the name of God incessantly.

I know because God told me that all beings think of Him.

I want to be like that...

I don't want to forget you again, Dave.

Forgetting you makes me sick,

Makes my chest tight and weak helpless...

Maryam grew sobbing, while Anggel continued to write while wiping away her tears.

I want to love you always

Even though differences hinder us

Even though we can't have each other

And though this body belongs to others...

Do you know what I feel when I let this love grow?

I'm happy, very happy...

In my unconsciousness,

I heard you calling me, Dave

He took me around to a place where I had never seen him,

I see you're wearing green silk, Dave.

I can still feel it.

You want to take me to live in that place

Like Adam and Eve.

Just two...

But someone pulled my hand to take me away.

I don't want the two of you in that place, Dave*.

Maryam sobbing again.

I'm sad.

*Bring me, Dave.

Take me to that place again.

I don't want to be here...

I don't want to be sad thinking about you anymore...

I don't want to live without you, Dave*.

*I don't want to see my dad again.

Realizing his existence makes me weaker because he will never bless us.

I tried to follow Khaled's invitation to learn to love God more than anyone else.

I've tried to recite and praise Nama-Nama

Yes, but still can't.

I want to get away from this world if in nature I am happy with you*.

Get me, Dave.

I'm waiting for you here

I waited for you...

*Maybe you can pick me up on your bike, bring your beloved dog and I'll bring Zahara, my white cat.

You once said that someday we'd live with our pets.

Yeah, on that basketball court

I always remember your words...

Prove, Dave!

Prove those words if you really love me.

I don't want to be like a butterfly whose short life is enjoying the beautiful flowers in your church garden.

I don't want to be like a rainbow for a moment

give her beautiful color and then disappear.

I don't want to be like a tree in the fall

fly the leaves and then grow again in semi musin.

I want to be like the Edelweish flower

Which will not wither even if plucked.

I want to be like the Antarctic continent whose snow never melts.

I want to be like a tropical forest whose trees are always green with no autumn or spring.

I want to be with you always and forever...

Take me away, Dave!

Please...

Get me!

We're gonna bike all the way there, though,

Through the sky,

Through the stars,

Leaving this world

Yes, leave this world...

Forever...

Angel is crying great. Meanwhile, Maryam is getting weaker. He became difficult to breathe, then fainted and no longer conscious until now.

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