30 Healing

SALIM Two weeks had passed by and things had been quite rough on Hadizat. Although she acted tough and cool, I could see that she was broken inside. She was distant and every time I tried to talk to her, she would shove the issue aside and say she’s perfectly okay. I wanted to know that she was really okay. I wanted Hadizat back. I wanted her to smile through her eyes again, and to laugh like she meant it. It might have been too soon to want all that, and I may have been selfish, because at the end her happiness made me happy, but I still wanted it, because in the end I was only a man in love. What was love but blind? Losing Salim had to be one of the harder things I'd gone through in a long time. I had been so helpless that day and that was the worse way too feel. I couldn't do anything or say anything,much as I tried. I sit alone daily in my dimly lit room, surrounded by the haunting echoes of memories that refuse to fade. The air feels heavy with the weight of sadness, a vo