[Salon] Palestinian poet, Mosab Abu Toha

[Chas Freeman <cwfresidence@gmail.com>]

The Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha expresses the devastation of grief and the longing for peace:  

I wish I could wake up and find the electricity on all day long.  
I wish I could hear the birds sing again, no shooting and no  
     buzzing drones.  
I wish my desk would call me to hold my pen and write again,  
  or at least plow through a novel, revisit a poem, or read a play.  
All around me are nothing  
but silent walls  
and people sobbing 
without sound.  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/people/mosab-toha