Do you still believe? I asked“
I’m glad that my parents are dead,” someone said
The words ricochet around the hollow of my life
and inside the fortifications of my head Numbness is like death .. I said
Death? my waiting echoed, No, no .. it is far worse.
Numbness is emptiness,
It is the life of a refugee
It is a life of camouflage… yet you still cannot escape the pain But do you still believe! I said.
“I’m glad that my parents are dead!” someone’s tears cried ..
But mine are not, I pleaded, mine are not! Mine must witness
Mine must endure
Mine must breathe the toxic waste that is the road to “peace”
Mine must suffer a way to explain to their dead Do you still believe? I said
Soothe me, comfort me, console me
Does anyone still believe?
Or should I wish that I, too, were dead and my children
and my grandchildrenand
my senses
and my wings
and this small optimistic voice even now residing inside …
Or is everyone already dead?
Only everyone who once believed
… ricocheted around the hollow fortifications of my head.
Fadwa
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