Illusions of isolation and flashes of hope

Kifah Al-Zuhawi It is frustrating for a person to waste his energy in a tiny corner of the earth, believing he has found the ultimate pleasure, only to find himself captive to a deadly trap, besieging him on a lifeless island in the middle of a raging ocean—there, where silence devours sounds, he feels that his screams find no one to hear them, except for his trembling heartbeats. But in the darkness, he realizes that silence is not death, but r…