Deaf, Unfamiliar with Flirtation

Author: Wissam Al-Saeed Al-Ashqar

She couldn't speak, but her soul narrated untold stories.

This deaf and mute girl lived a long time in a small world: a quiet, safe world that neither hurt nor betrayed.

A world for which it was enough for life to smile upon her and listen to her silent language with a love that asked for nothing, as if it were a melody only he understood.

And when her small heart rebelled and she decided to step outside her narrow circle, she discovered that her silence was not a disability but a protective shield...

For the world does not hear hearts, but holds souls accountable for what they do not possess.

She faced gazes that excluded her as if she were outside the bounds of humanity, and hands that hunted

her weakness as spoils, then she saw a heart she thought would fight the world for her.

But it abandoned her at the first test: planting doubt in her soil instead of reassurance, leaving her to endure a pain greater than her helplessness...

Only then did she realize that sounds were not what she heard with her ears, but what the heart chanted one day and then suddenly faded, returning her deaf, in hearing and in heart.