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"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." Norman Cousins

هنا، عند مُنْحَدَرات التلال، أمام الغروب وفُوَّهَة الوقت،
قُرْبَ بساتينَ مقطوعةِ الظلِ،
نفعلُ ما يفعلُ السجناءُ،
وما يفعل العاطلون عن العمل:
نُرَبِّي الأملْ....

يقولُ على حافَّة الموت:
لم يَبْقَ بي مَوْطِئٌ للخسارةِ:
حُرٌّ أَنا قرب حريتي. وغدي في يدي
سوف أَدخُلُ عمَّا قليلٍ حياتي،
وأولَدُ حُرّاً بلا أَبَوَيْن،
وأختارُ لاسمي حروفاً من اللازوردْ
الشهيدُ يُوَضِّحُ لي: لم أفتِّشْ وراء المدى
عن عذارى الخلود، فإني أُحبُّ الحياةَ
علي الأرض، بين الصُنَوْبرِ والتين،
لكنني ما استطعتُ إليها سبيلاً، ففتَّشْتُ
عنها بآخر ما أملكُ: الدمِ في جَسَدِ اللازوردْ....

الشهيدُ يُحَاصرني: لم أُغيِّرْ سوى موقعي وأَثاثي الفقيرِ.
وَضَعْتُ غزالاً على مخدعي،
وهلالاً على إصبعي،
كي أُخفِّف من وَجَعي !

سيمتدُّ هذا الحصار ليقنعنا باختيار عبوديّة لا تضرّ، ولكن بحريَّة كاملة!!.

أَن تُقَاوِم يعني: التأكُّدَ من صحّة
القلب والخُصْيَتَيْن، ومن دائكَ المتأصِّلِ:
داءِ الأملْ

"State of curfew" by a Mahmoud Darwich, 2002.

Here, by the hills, in front of the sunset,

And the time's canon,... Read More

Close to grove's shadows are cut off,

we do what the prisoners do,

as the jobless too:

we grow hope.

He said on the edge of death:

I have nothing left to lose

I'm free here close to my freedom

and my future is in my own hand

I will go into my life in a moment,

I'll be born free without parents,

and I shall choose letters for my name made of lazuli.

The Martyr clarifies to me: I didn't look after the horizon
for the immortality virgins, because I love life
on earth, around the pine and figs trees,
but I couldn't get to it, so I searched
for it by the last thing I have: the blood of the lazuli body.

The martyr beleaguers me: don't come to my funeral
unless you know me. I don't want courtesy
from anybody.

This siege will elongate to convince us to choose a harmless servitude,

with absolute freedom.

To resist, means: assuring of a healthy... Read More

heart, testicles, and your inherent malady:
disease of Hope.

We love tomorrow's life,

when it is tomorrow we will love life as it is,

neutral, Gray or colourful with no resuscitation or hereafter.

and if there is no way but love,

let it be light on the heart and the flank,

because a fox is not taken twice in the same love.

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  • so dumb.it would be better if it was lava and he was in a volcano.

  • why isn't there my name on the thanks? f***

  • جميل...

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