What Next ? by Tawfiq Zeyad
What next ?...
I do not know
All I know
Is that
The belly of space and time
Curves with child
That truth does not die
And usurpers cannot enslave it
That on this land of mine
Conquerors never lasted.Gaza-Jericho Nizar Qabani
They left a sardine can to us,
called "Gaza"
Another bare bone, called "Jericho"
A hotel, called "Palestine"
with no roof, with no columns
They left a body with no bones
and a hand with no fingers...How much we dreamed about a green peace,
a white moon,
a blue sea,
a high castle,
And all of a sudden we found ourselves
in the garbage dumpster...Nizar Qabani in Filastin al-Muslimah