Pain and Love: The Metaphors of the Heart

Ikabbu hailed from an impoverished desert land, which was remarked by the paucity of basic human needs and a relentless wicked spell of aridity. He never knew his putative father who was a king in a faraway land. His mother said to go to his father after her death. Ikabbu resented his father ruefully. However, he reluctantly left the only land he knew intimately and a damsel to whom he was betrothed to look for his father just to appease his mother’s spirit. His journey was long and fraught with perilous trials and tribulations, which nearly stole his life. When he finally set foot in the land of his father, he could not believe the impressions of his eyes. Sadly, following an encounter with his father, his life became embroidered with indelible pain, ardent ardor, betrayal, retribution, and the deaths of people closest to his heart.