1. May Haddad
I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER
Moment of discovery
…door and silence
Earliest writing moment
2.
3. Moment of discovery
Th
e bouncing heart
Made her feel all that love
As if Juliet, the
mother,
heard the beats
She came and sat next to her
on that
fl
owery sofa bed
Mom, I am in love,
the eight years old girl said
Th
e little girl saw the worries
and the questions in her mother’s eyes
Juliet was comforted when
the little girl calmly said:
Yes, I know it …
I feel all this love
to everything, everything around me
4. …
door and silence
the door shot behind Dr Preshaw,
suddenly, there was complete
silence in the room
Aida, Nabil and May
were to make
the decision
And sign that paper…
Dr Preshaw was to return around 8:00 am
to the room where there the father laid sleeping
And the paper was that of their consent
to let their father go peacefully with no active
medical interference when his body totally fails him
Th
e siblings paralyzed at the moment
were phoning Imad, their brother
who could not join them then
in that hospital in Calgary
Th
e nurse entered the room
and approached the father
5. It was exactly 8:00 am when she
informed the siblings who were still on the phone
that their father had no vital signs and that
he had just departed…
Th
e siblings never had to sign that
paper, as their father protected them
at that moment and made the decision
6. earliest writing m
om
ent
Ms Salma, the school supervisor
caught us.
Th
is is totally unacceptable
and you should be punished
She spoke with a harsh tone
Janan, Sahar and May,
the three little classmates
of the elementary
fi
ft
h class
looked at angry Ms Salma
with great sadness
For months, they had been selling
the magazine JMS that they manually produced
to the students of Ahliah school…
Th
e students loved their magazine,
each magazine made di
ff
erently and with a touch
Th
ey enjoyed the drawings, the games, the jokes
and the school stories that the three little editors
narrated and illustrated…
As a proof of their appreciation, the students
paid 5 and 10 piasters per issue,
and sometimes 25 piasters for luxury issue
7. Th
e sad moment happened
As the three little classmates
decided to donate the
20 lebanese lira that they had
collected piaster a
ft
er piaster
from selling dozens of JMS magazine
to the Friends of Jerusalem Association
headed by Mrs Wadad Cortas
the director of the school and Ms Salma’s sister
Although they were presented
as heroes on the school’s stage
in front of all the students
who were clapping to them
the three young editors were
very unhappy as they
donated their hard earned money
