And We Love Life
by Marmood Darwish.
And we love life if we find a way to it.
We dance in between martyrs and raise a minaret for violet and palm trees.
We love life if we find a way to it.
And we steal from the silkworm a thread to build a sky and fence in this departure.
We open the garden gate for the jasmine to step out on the streets as a beautiful day.
We love life if we find a way to it.
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And we plant, where we settle, some fast growing plants, and harvest the dead.
We play the flute like the color of the faraway, sketch over the first corridor a neigh.
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We write our names one stone at a time, O lightning brighten the night.
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Thanks to Sarah Browning of DC Poets Against War.
3-14-2023
Pineapple crochet by Kyi May Kaung
