The Last Wish

[Dr. Jamshid Ibrahim]

The Last Wish
They asked him as usual:Would you like to make your last wish? He didn't answer till the question was repeated and the third bottle was opened. Then he said: If my wish is your command I have one wishlease, hang me with a coloured rope.He didn't know why he said that and wondered: What a stupid question it was. Why did he ask about my wish?. He even wanted to say: Idiot you know my time has come and beggars can't ride. Still he tried hard to find something worth mentioning but apart from a coloured rope nothing else occurred to him. Everything else lost meaning.He was born flesh coloured which turned to amber when he was a teenager. But now he feels he is peach. He put his hands in his pocket and took out the last letter, he got from her before she died, closing with best wishes.

He then remembered all his other wishes for birthday and New Year. She didn't know what to buy for him, so she showed him how to write a list of his wishes on a piece of paper weeks before the great event. His wishes were numerous and he always made a big list.They say the wish is the father to thought and he thought how everything evaporated within a second when the second bottle was opened. He wished to be with her and tell her about all his wishes. He was waiting impatiently for her to come back like a child waiting for Christmas presents. But this time when she came back she refused to speak with him. He was furious and wanted to know why. He almost went mad when she kept quiet. He grabbed the first bottle and opened it. A letter fell on the floor. He picked it up, read it and put it in his pocket..

Jamshid
Bremen, 24 February 2008

 

[Mohammed Abu Risha]

Wonderful story

I was touched in particular by the man's not knowing what to wish other than having a coloured rope around his neck.

Indeed when someone asks you "What is your last wish" you could hardly say anything but what the man in your story said.

All our wishes have lost meaning.

 

[Dr. Jamshid Ibrahim]

Maybe the colour was the only thing left for wishes come and go. But something permanent exists in the midst of a passing passion. Colours might refer to the different stages of his changing life. Life resolves first into its constituents that's colours to dissolve in death.

 

[JACOOL]

Or maybe, the colourful rope, indicates how confused he was. Since it's the last wish, which meant he was about to pass a way. Another thing is, the rope is a simple thing, and that means that the man lost his interests in life. And so will anybody who's about to, die they, somehow, lose their iterests in life. He found that a simple thing was enough. Or more than enough.

 

[Dr. Jamshid Ibrahim]

Indeed Jacool the coloured rope can show the man's confusion or mybe even love for diversity (different colours) which now comes to the fore before death. But again when you know you are going to die everything in life loses its appeal and turns to a rope. A rope is a symbol of captivity as well. Thanks for your insightful ideas.

 

[sum1]

"Indeed Jacool the coloured rope can show the man's confusion or mybe even love for diversity (different colours) which now comes to the fore before death. But again when you know you are going to die everything in life loses its appeal and turns to a rope. A rope is a symbol of captivity as well. Thanks for your insightful ideas."

for me, the coloured rope meant he wanted to die, even if he wouldn't wish for it, by somes colours, colours he couldn't reach or catch when alive or better to say when trying to look alive, colours of happiness, luv, etc..

thanx for your writings dr :up: