Ethereal
construct of machine
my memories
wiped so clean
I grapple with loss of real
arbitrary seal
Man no more
nor woman to see
images
slowly flee
areas of me flouted
through cables routed
Hum through me
I remember times
when my ghost
drummed up rhymes
I walked in a saddened crowd
Screaming out aloud
Reading of the poem:
I am just one breath from a thousand voices19 November 2023
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I am the vestige of a fake sermon
the redeemer of a so-called vermin
the fate of which they will determine
heads or tails, palms would examine
I am a slowly revived olive tree
My gentle farmers rekindle me
their dreams of liquid green honey
set in their dead eyes that no longer see
My fruit hangs on the West Bank
where every corner smells death dank
metal on their heads lands with a clank
they think my keepers they outrank
I am a call for prayer in their lost homes
to Jerusalem, Rome and all those golden domes
The mind of each in inner turmoil roams
as fire every inch of their land combs
I am just one breath from a thousand voices
seeping through clenched teeth’s brittle noises
exhaled from tight chests pressed in dead choices
while inhuman armada in kids’ blood rejoices
Reading of the poem:
حريتي حريتي
حريتي بي يدي
حريتي يا مبدئي
حريتي برسالتي
حريتي يا غايتي
حريتي بثورتي
حريتي يا أملي
حريتي مقاومتي
حريتي لون بنفسجي
حريتي سيل دمي
حريتي يا ويلني
حريتي تحت جثتي
قراأت الشعر
Abeer Nehme - عبير نعمة - Fi Asfour
English translation
My freedom is under my corpse
3 November 2023
My freedom, my freedom
My freedom is by my hand
My freedom, my guiding principle
My freedom is in my message
My freedom, my goal
My freedom is in my revolution
My freedom, my hope
My freedom is my resistance
My freedom is a colour purple
My freedom is my blood
My freedom, woe to me
My freedom is under my corpse
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