What is to Give Light: poem by Yahia Lababidi, short film by Dave Bonta

Inspired by the Egyptian Revolution, 2011 http://www.newint.org/blog/majority/2011/02/08/what-is-to-give-light/ What is to give light must endure
burning, a man once said
Another man became the matchstick
that set a nation aflame But fire, and its appetite, cannot be
calculated, like freedom
Injustice and desperation make men
combustible, like dry wood When words lose their meaning
and an entire people their voice -- so they can neither laugh nor scream -- death and life begin to taste the same From Tunis, to Egypt, to Lebanon to Yemen
the light from a burning man proved catching
And those with nothing to lose, or offer, but bodies
fanned the embers of their hopes into a blazing dream.

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• Egypt
• Revolution
• Middle East
• Tunis
• Lebanon
• Yemen
• Protests
• Al Jazeera