What does Heart and Rib mean to me?

Heart and Rib came into existence with a desire of seeking contentment, fulfill a wish to write stories I imagine characters I create with emotions I have felt and still strive for an understanding from those of you here reading these stories, that yes you have been through something similar and felt the same.

What does 'Heart and Rib' mean to me?

Amidst the trials and tribulations, there lies a primal need within us to find peace ‘Sakeenah’ and serenity. Love means many things and is a very small word for what one might feel for another person. For me, the emotions that love as a word cannot express ‘Heart and Rib’ does.

As humans we were created to start a journey of life on Earth with a purpose of holding a balance in good and evil. The stereotypical dynamic between a man and a woman has always been that a man protects his woman from any evil and a woman is a being made of delicacy and has a tendency to fall prey to such evil. However, the real essence of our co-existence is completely opposite.

In my eyes a man is the heart and a woman is the rib. She is the rib that protects this pound of flesh beating strong at every second, its pulse rising and falling on the up-hills, turns and pitfall of life. It's beat resonating  each emotion and experience it feels. It's vulnerabilities protected and covered in an enclave of shielding bars each connecting with one and another to form a cage.To exert any resistance or straighten its curve would mean to break it and to not uphold its structure would leave it to become crooked. They both reside in a form so different, still perfectly enclosed and fit just right with each other.

                 The woman a cage of ribs in which a man's heart can rest in peace.