Mourning the death of Mahmoud Darwish
May he rest in peace.
Mahmoud Darwish (13 March 1941 – 9 August 2008), the renowned Palestinian poet, has died after open heart surgery at the Memorial Hermann medical centre in Texas.
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Poem: I Come From There
I come from there and I have memories
Born as mortals are, I have a mother
And a house with many windows,
I have brothers, friends,
And a prison cell with a cold window.
Mine is the wave, snatched by sea-gulls,
I have my own view,
And an extra blade of grass.
Mine is the moon at the far edge of the words,
And the bounty of birds,
And the immortal olive tree.
I walked this land before the swords
Turned its living body into a laden table.I come from there. I render the sky unto her mother,
When the sky weeps for her mother.
And I weep to make myself known
To a returning cloud.
I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood,
So that I could break the rule.
I learnt all the words and broke them up,
To make a single word: Homeland….
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We go from celebrating our four athletes in the evening to mourning the loss of a cultural treasure when we rise. We as a people are suffering a loss of immeasurable effect. We can only look to the likes of our few remaining titans to shepherd us through the darkness.
Record !
I am an Arab
And my identity card is number fifty thousand
It so sad, but this is life. Life and death. We loose great people every day, but I think that every Palestenian is a great person. No matter who they are and what they accomplished in their life. They are Palestenian and carry the name of Palestine in their blood.