Just be a good little Arab / Palestinian? What’s that? / Be a good little Arab…
“Go back to your country.” / I will go somewhere / But not because of you /
But because I’m tired of existing only …
Is it my fault though? / For wanting someone who will recognize my melancholic smile? / For wanting someone to share the heartache that is life with?
I do not write about you / because you are everything good and whole and sacred, / I have a tendency to only write about wilted brokenness: /
the chipped cup, the forest blight, / the deer’s tangled antlers…
If you ask me who my role model is, I’ll tell you it’s a man who needs no introduction / His mercy to all leaves me in absolute If you ask me who my role model is, I’ll tell you it’s a man who needs no introduction…