Posted on December 3, 2006 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
Selfish
I feel greedy today
Holding onto your things
Not wanting to part
My mind is whispering
“You would make some one’s life
A little bit better
If only you could share”
But my heart is clinging on
Refusing to let go
I want to keep your olive shirt
Your auburn jumper… your pair of jeans
I want to keep your pile of papers
Your navy socks… your golden car
I want to keep your reading glasses
Your hearing aid… your sun burnt shoes
I want to keep your fingerprints
Your footsteps… your magical laughter
I want to keep your frozen tear
Your loving eyes… your sweet smile
I want to keep your tender touch
Your charming aura … Your heavenly gaze
And I want to drown in all
Drown in… you
I feel greedy today
14-04-2006
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Posted on December 3, 2006 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
Taste of love
I didn’t see the wonders of love
Until your eyes gazed into mine
I didn’t feel the warmth of love
Until your hand reached out to mine
I didn’t sense the joy of love
Until your heart danced with mine
I didn’t know the taste of love
Until you held me in your arms
Hold me closer
Hold me tighter
Hide me safely
In your heart
10-2-2006
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Posted on December 3, 2006 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
When I held the world
There, on the top of the mountain
I sat with you
You held me in your arms
And in my arms I held the world
There on the top of the mountain
Dawn spread its wings out … took a deep breath
Embraced us with a smile
Daisies looked at you
Yearning to be picked up, as you crowned me with
The stream invited us to dip our feet in
Join its mystic dance
Hills dozed off, dreaming of a life resembling ours
The breeze whispered the tale of our love
Our hearts discovered heaven
There, on the top of the mountain
I needed no more
I desired no more
In my arms I held the world
9-2-2006
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Posted on December 3, 2006 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
Without you
A wingless dove… struggling to survive
A dry flower… Fighting for its life
A soulless body… I linger
Without you by my side
A drained heart
Like Moses’ mother’s
Gazing at the basket
As her baby drifted away
Exhausted by yearning
Forever waiting
Hopelessly
Searching for your voice
In your old files and papers
Looking for your heartbeat
Between the pages of your diary
Running after your footsteps
Amid garden grass and sand grains
Seeing your face in all the faces
In all pictures and in all magazine covers
In vain
Craving for your hug
Chasing your breath
Clinging to your shadow
Following your smile
Finding nothing
But the echo of despair
Without you by my side
I am barely a human mirage
12-2-2006
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Posted on December 3, 2006 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
Trapped
Every morning
I wake up
Into my nightmare
Stretching my arm out
YOU ARE NOT THERE
My heart screams
I want to break FREE
And follow you
25—6-2006
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Posted on November 29, 2006 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
Thank you
So, let me get this straight:
You tear my veil to free me
You jail me to rid me of my terror
You kill my beloved to liberate me
You shoot my baby to erase my misery
You starve me to show me how to vote
You threaten me to bring me to my senses
You wage war on me to help me find peace
You slay my people to teach me compassion
You humiliate me to aid me live with dignity
You insult me to illustrate freedom of speech
You crush my bones to save me from my evil
You demolish my home to elevate my morality
You uproot my tree to raise my ethical standard
You steal my resources to bring me social justice
You assassinate my leaders to train me into democracy
You bomb my town to bring me security
You destroy my history to educate me about progress
You dehumanise me to coach me into humanity
You wipe me out to push me to civilisation
Thank you sir
How can I -ever- pay you back?
08-10-2006
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Posted on November 29, 2006 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
Stone the terrorist
No one knows my real name
No one cared to ask
An alien entity… with lost identity
To some I’m the manifestation
Of the horror of the newspapers
The wicked one
Plotting with the axis of evil
To others I’m the one
Who ascended from the past’s graveyard
To drag humanity to the age
Of ignorance and darkness
In the eighties I was Khomeini
Then I became Qaddafi
In the nineties I was Saddam Hussein
Then I became Ben laden
Today I am Nasrullah… tomorrow who knows
But no one knows my real name
No one cared to ask
I am the suspect… the accused
The criminal… the illegal
The immoral… the uncivilised
The brainless…. the terrorist
The peace hater… the freedom loather
The democracy rejecter
To eliminate me is an honourable deed
For I am the human with no humanity
My crime is…
Being
My sin is…
Believing
Do you know who am I?
I am a Palestinian Muslim
With a hijab on
05-05-2006
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Posted on November 29, 2006 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
When I said goodbye
Unlike yourself
You were cold
When I kissed you goodbye
Unlike yourself
You didn’t hold me close
You didn’t even kiss me back
Unlike yourself
When I cried
You didn’t try to comfort me
Unlike yourself
You didn’t follow me with your eyes
As I was leaving… moving away
Unlike yourself
You didn’t ask me to join you
On this trip
Unlike yourself
You didn’t hold on to me
You departed alone
Unlike yourself
You didn’t keep your promise this time
Weyyak weyyak yellyrbeit ana weyyak
En ishna ishna sawa, wen muttana weyyak *
My grief… infinite
My sorrow…deep
My pain… unbearable
For the world to endure
So it crumbled before my eyes
When I said goodbye
* From a Palestinian folklore song that khaled used to sing to me, it means:
With you for ever,
We grew up together, sweetheart,
If we live we live together,
And if we die we die together
6-2-2006
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Tell them
Sweetheart
Did you hear the rumours?
People are whispering, they say:
Our love is a myth… a fairy tale
It can’t be real
Too good to be true
Sweetheart
People are talking, they say:
Something surreal happened between those two
The fable of their love is legendary
Mighty death has failed to obliterate
Their everlasting union
Sweetheart
People are mumbling, they say:
Love cannot survive marital ties
Nor the test of time
Love dies when you sign the papers
And as you say “… I do”
Sweetheart
Tell them it’s not true
Sweetheart
Tell them
Hair may turn grey
But hearts never do
Sweetheart
Tell them
Indeed… our life might be over
But our love is yet a seed
That only just began… to bloom
27- 9- 2006
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Posted on November 29, 2006 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
Permanent
How can I erase you from my book of memories?
When you’ve been engraved
On every page
Imprinted on every line
Carved along with every word
How can I delete you from my system?
When you’ve been saved
In every folder
Formatted by every font
Pasted with every pixel
How can I sift you from my body?
When you’ve settled in every limb
Cloned with every breath
Occupied every cell
Combined with every molecule
How can I separate you from me?
When you’ve been weaved
With every thread of my being
Plaited with every fibre
Laced with every strand
How can I?
04-06-2006
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