Category — Poems

We’ve just found a new audio archive online featuring David from DAI being interviewed on the show “Talk Nation” on his involvement with DAI and his work through Voices for Creative Nonviolence, and reading one of his poems, “If Irony Were Justice”, which tells the story of Mustafa, one of DAI’s first and ongoing patients and friends.

The interview is from last year, but David’s words are still relevant, clear, and powerful. The program is one half hour, and David is one of those interviewed.

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Click here to go to the archive page where several formats are available

A second segment of the interview is available in different formats here, this time including both David and Kathy Kelly of Voices for Creative Nonviolence

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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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