I Live in Everything

I Live in Everything

Tawfiq Zaiyyad Put thy fetters in my feet Shed my blood in the street Cut with thy scissors my tongue Eat my flesh, silence my song Wring round my neck thy dark rope Bury me alive - at the foot of the slope Yet I shall come back - alive In everything, I shall thrive. As long as there is a living flower In my land, growing in a bower As long as there is a breath of air A mother's sigh, full of worry and care I shall sing for freedom, and build the rhyme As long as my soil nourishes grass and thyme!