THE ATTRACTION OF DOUBT
And he refused any form of clemency, even that which some, out of loyalty or nostalgia, still tried to grant him.
He serves his sentence in an old military stronghold, repurposed for the high officials of the former regime. A prison without apparent bars, but where every wall resonates with the mistakes of the past. I know he reads. I learned he writes. Journals, letters he never sends. Perhaps a book. Perhaps an attempt to understand. Perhaps a last attempt to exist otherwise.
I have not seen him again.
But he writes to me.
Sober, stripped letters, full of questions, regrets, memories. He asks me for nothing. He does not seek forgiveness. He lays down words like one places stones on a grave
Bab Populer