I Have Learned And Dismantled All The

And I Tell Myself, A Moon Will Rise From My Darkness.

I Am From There. I Am From Here. I Am Not There And I Am Not Here. I Have Two Names, Which Meet And Part, And I Have Two Languages. I Forget Which Of Them I Dream In.

We Are Captives Of What We Love, What We Desire, And What We Are.

I Learnt All The Words Worthy Of The Court Of Blood So That I Could Break The Rule I Learnt All The Words And Broke Them Up To Make A Single Word: Homeland.

May Poetry And God's Name Have Mercy On Us!