Like One Who Wanted to Live

About this book

Between the pulse and the line: like one who wanted to live. In this world crowded with passing faces, there are encounters that do not pass idly by but carve their furrows in the soul and change the course of a lifetime. Like One Who Wanted to Live is not merely a poetry collection or scattered texts; it is a public confession of the treasures of a human journey that began with a glance and ended with becoming a precious treasure in itself. Writer Islam Abu El-Khair takes us on an emotional voyage with no anchorage for ships and no final point at the end of the line; here the journey is the destination and transformation is the goal. The work moves between the alleys of memory, from If We Were Neighbors where distances between houses narrow and widen in the heart, to The First Encounter that descends like a cool breeze in the height of summer, reviving what died within us. The writer weaves with dazzling mastery the small details of love: the trembling of a shy hand, the silence of eyes speaking languages strangers do not understand, and the constant search for shelter in another's heart. It is a book that refuses the arithmetic operations that try to divide lovers, and believes that true love is the saving of a lifetime from the joys we snatch from the claws of hard time. It is an invitation to strip the soul of its false dignity and return to a forgotten childhood beginning with the words good evening and ending with our truly becoming like one who wanted to live.