Diaries of a Palestinian Wound

Diaries of a Palestinian Wound

Mahmoud Darwish We shall remain wakeful, we remember! Al-Carmel lives in us, like a wonder: On our eyelids lives Galilee grass, And the waters of our river do pass Through the texture of our native soil; We write no poetry, but we do toil: Twenty years before the June disaster, We lived in fetters, dear beloved sister! Those sad shadows that are darkling Upon your eyes, to eliminate sparkling Happiness, are but our long, dark night Against which we continued to fight. When you sang, dear skylark, Palestine's dawn shone from the dark! Zajel / An-Najah National University