A review by illyricvm
State of Siege by Mahmoud Darwish

5.0

“In my solitude, I scream out loud –
not to wake everybody from their deep sleep,
but to shake myself from my own captive imagination!”

“All you who stay up late, aren’t you sick of watching
the glitter in our salt,
the glowing roses in our wounds?
Hasn’t this gone on long enough?”

“Peace, elegy for a youth hit squarely in the heart
not by bullets or a bomb, but by a woman’s beauty-mark.
Peace, a song for life itself
sung by a tassel of living wheat.”