Birds Took Your Son
A Jar of Jam - Birds Took Your Son
Once a bird popped into my dream picking the baby up by his diaper. It flew away and the baby nearly slipped its neb. I screamed and my wife woke up. “What happened?”, she asked. I told her a bird took away our baby. “The baby is here”, she said. He was six days old during that time. He grew up, went to the frontline. I mean, he went and returned. Despite our efforts, he didn’t agree to get married. We f inally got him to get engaged with my niece. After three days of their ceremony, he went back to the frontline and he took long to return. “Please, go find him and replace him so he can return. My daughter is crying a river”, my sister said. I went there and found him. I asked him to return. “I have an unfinished business. I’ll return after it’s over”, he said. I didn’t get what he said back then. I told myself I would wait a couple of days and stay here .until he comes back One night after the pray, all the fighters were crying in the rifle pit. He dropped his hand on my neck and we cried so much. Everyone came back from the operation the following day. Everyone but him. They hid this from me. On the same night, the same bird popped into my dream once again. It took the baby again. I told myself Gholamreza is gone. I explained it to Haj Agha1 Tari. He seemed to be aware of the news. “To tell the truth, it is correct. The birds took your son”, he .said
