I Wish I Were A Candle In

The Palestinians Are The Only Nation In The World That Feels With Certainty That Today Is Better Than What The Days Ahead Will Hold. Tomorrow Always Heralds A Worse Situation.

A Person Can Only Be Born In One Place. However, He May Die Several Times Elsewhere: In The Exiles And Prisons, And In A Homeland Transformed By The Occupation And Oppression Into A Nightmare.

The Poem Is Neither Here Nor There, And With A Girl's Breast It Can Illuminate The Nights. With The Glow Of An Apple It Fills Two Bodies With Light And With A Gardenia's Breath It Can Revive A Homeland!

To Be Under Occupation, To Be Under Siege, Is Not A Good Inspiration For Poetry.

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