Bride Nile

With sweat all over our foreheads and exhausted hands
We knocked the door, till a 50 years old woman wearing a very old cloak showed up
Hardly breathing which gave us an idea what kind of effort she took to open that door for us, her face Wrinkles was so profiled and her obliviously shaking hands that she was hardly trying to keep from being seen So that she wouldn’t look older than she really is
With a welcoming body gesture she allowed us to enter her house, if we can call it a house
Walls were enormously cracked due to humidity: bad enough that we couldn’t tell its real color.
The house consists of two rooms
One includes a very ancient bed
And a second including two small couches settled by some bricks, so they won’t fall down.
There were four of us, we were afraid that if we sat on those couches that They might fall down, so we choose to set on the floor which was covered by torn mat showing up cold white cobble same as the cold that she felt inside.
“What kind of help would you need? Financial, medical? Anything? “We asked her, wandering what her answer could be like!
Holding a pen and paper to record each and every item she states

She looked at us with a very calm voice and said: I was married and left alone because I’m sterile
All I’m asking from you, that you may pay me a visit every month,
With falling tears she continued: I want to feel I’m still alive
A useless pen I was holding in my hands with a paper folded with my tears.
“So you have enough money? “Another colleague asked
With a smiley face said I do have enough of that.
“Can you pray for us? at the same instance she raised her hand and kept praying
I felt my heart was thrilled and non-stopping tears all over me; she started to calm me down and smiled at me
Insisted to open the door when we were walking out
And said: Do not forget about me,
We replied: and you shall not forget about us in your prayers
Something huge was changed when her door was closed; something different came up to our minds. It’s not about that she almost had nothing. However, she had something much bigger than anything else called “satisfaction “
She is actually happier and liberate
On our way back, I asked my friend setting next to me
What was this lady’s name?
She looked at me and replayed: Radya
In Arabic Radya means someone who is always satisfied regardless her circumstances,