She was one of a kind and she had this weird habit of picking up puppies from the streets wherever she could find, and I have always been afraid of them. They are animals, you can't trust them! That's what I used to say, but now I am in love with them. It took her a great deal to work to make me hold a puppy for the first time, I remember the soft paws and how weird it felt, that sound it made which sounded more like "Yaa" instead of a bark. We named her "Yakii", the sweet puppy. The puppy family kept growing, her family didn't like the idea of getting so many puppies and allowed her to keep only two. I can still remember how she cried when she was told to give them away. Her sweet face turned red with tears running down her eyes, she crawled into my arms and asked me to keep them but sadly my family restricted me from keeping pets, so we had to let the puppies go one by one, except "Takii" and "Yakii", both of them were inseparable and she loved them both just like the way she loved the others but I always felt like Takii was her favorite one, so I started to call her Takii, and she called me Yakii but I didn't like the name and persuaded her not to call me that, after a while, she did stop, maybe she realized that it's not a name for a person but I never stopped calling her Takii.
Takii never thought the wrong about anyone, for her everyone in the world was good. She would say, no one would harm me or her unless we do harm and I believed that, just the way she did because you see, life seemed much simpler that way and the negative of the world is forgotten. For her, everyone had a life and everyone's life was an interesting journey; a book or a poem, everyone's life was a composition of words put together to form a meaning, a rhythm of beauty. She wrote beautifully about everything she saw and she understood nothing clearly.
A dream is what it was, and a dream it better be, because the reality is bitter and the past is sour. She misunderstood the world and I agreed with her. I woke up with another dream, and later I hoped that she was just a dream.
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