Category — Poems

for Najlaa, Lori, and Kathy C.

I

Even before the bullet,
I was waiting.

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Amman, April, 2008 - for the DAI team

Haifa’a speaks

Time to think.
Suddenly, in the midst of war,
time to remember,
to sift and re-sift,
to see clearly.

For forty years, I lived by the sun’s light,
drinking it through the mouth of my pupils.
Who could distinguish between that light and my eyes?
Didn’t my eyes also glow,
weren’t they themselves also stars?

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