It is a pleasure tonight to publish some empathetic verses by my dear friend, the Palestinian poet and Empathic Master Najwasn Darwish.
I Write the Land
I want to write the land,
I want the words
to be the land itself.
But I’m just a statue the Romans carved
and the Arabs forgot.
Colonizers stole my severed hand
and stuck it in a museum.
No matter. I still want to write it –
the land.
My words are everywhere
and silence is my story.
