I lived in a country called Song:
Countless singing women made me
a citizen,
and musicians from the four corners
composed cities for me with mornings and nights,
and I roamed through my country
like a man roams through the world.
My country is a song,
and as soon as it ends, I go back
to being a refugee
--- Najwan Darwish,
Countless singing women made me
a citizen,
and musicians from the four corners
composed cities for me with mornings and nights,
and I roamed through my country
like a man roams through the world.
My country is a song,
and as soon as it ends, I go back
to being a refugee
--- Najwan Darwish,
Tr. by Kareem J. Abu-Zeid
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