NOVANEWS
by Nahida the Exiled Palestinian
by Palestinian poet Tawfeeq Ziyad
And I’d give half my lifetime to he who makes a crying child laugh
And I’d give the other half to protect a green flower from decay
And I’d walk a thousand years following a song
And I’d cross a thousand valleys whose paths are full of thorns
And I’d sail every sea that is rough to gather the scent at the lilac shores
I am humanity in the shape of human
So would I relax, while the chaste blood is being spilled!!
I’m singing to life
For to life I offered all my poems
And my poems are all I’ve got
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