Orderly Death

We finally met, after six years of bloody torment, loss, displacement, humiliation, begging, deprivation, homelessness, and murder. Port Said has become our home. I got married after five years and had four children. And I became very heedless. In the blink of an eye, many wars and several decades passed, and I became Egyptian to the bone, except that every night, when I put my head on the pillow to fall asleep, I repeat to myself, or perhaps it repeats to myself against my will: "I am Aram. My name is Aram. Aram Simonyan. from sis. The Turks massacred my family and a dream saved me.