Lyrics of Life

“I wish children didn’t die.  I wish they would be temporarily elevated to the skies until the war ends.  Then they would return home safe, ...

Wiped out by every wind over Gaza, we are scattered on this earth, footsteps in the desert. We do not, or cannot, know when and how to retur...

"Gentlemen, you have transformed our country into a graveyard You have planted bullets in our heads, and organized massacres Gentlemen,...

I have a country it's invisible it has no flags or moonlight or river or mountain or clouds to understand heaven or flames to take desir...

We love what we have, no matter how little, because if we don’t, everything will be gone. If we don’t we will no longer exist, since there w...

I lived in a country called Song: Countless singing women made me a citizen, and musicians from the four corners composed cities for me wit...

1. I grant you refuge in invocation and prayer. I bless the neighborhood and the minaret to guard them from the rocket from the moment it is...

A poet sits in a coffee shop, writing. The old lady thinks he is writing a letter to his mother, the young woman thinks he is writing a lett...

Oh rascal children of gaza, You who constantly disturbed me  with your screams under my window, You who filled every morning  with rush and ...

When I left, I left my childhood in the drawer and on the kitchen table. I left my toy horse in its plastic bag. I left without looking at t...

As you prepare your breakfast, think of others (do not forget the pigeon’s food). As you conduct your wars, think of others (do not forget t...

We deserve a better death. Our bodies are disfigured and twisted, embroidered with bullets and shrapnel. Our names are pronounced incorrectl...

You’re beautiful like a liberated homeland I’m exhausted like a colonized one. You’re sad as a forsaken person, fighting on I’m agitated as ...

There is a sweet music, but its sweetness fails to console you. This is what the days have taught you: in every long war there is a soldier,...

PRISON Man said: blessed are the birds in their cages for they, at least, know the limits of their prisons. SILENCE Silence said: truth need...

In Jerusalem, and I mean within the ancient walls, I walk from one epoch to another without a memory to guide me. The prophets over there ...

To our land, and it is the one near the word of god, a ceiling of clouds To our land, and it is the one far from the adjectives of noun...

My daughter wouldn't hurt a spider That had nested Between her bicycle handles For two weeks She waited Until it left of its own a...

It is much easier for you To push an elephant through a needle’s eye, Catch fried fish in galaxy, Blow out the sun, Imprison the wind, ...

My beloved homeland No matter how long the millstone Of pain and agony churns you In the wilderness of tyranny, They will never be able ...