Sohaib: A Short Story

Sohaib, a sixty-seven-year-old poet, is known for his poems reflecting immense optimism. To him, the world is a gift that God has sent him to embrace. Love and gratitude is all what he knows to give. But is the world he admires so much the same as him?

"Allah has sent me with a task:
To love the world like a child loving his mother!
The world doesn't love me, still
My love is for the world and for none other!"