I won’t go back to the ashen hillswhere the shattered donkey died.A premature sacrifice,just another dead donkey.
I won’t go back to the echoing walls.A falcon streaks below,and above, the crows.
I won’t go back to the broken hills,and who shaped the ruined gardens,to drift among the earthly cyclamen clouds?
I know of those gardeners and their lovely gardens.
I won’t go back to the ghosts of Nabi Musa,or to the springs, descending with my heart,to the bitter, shrinking sea.
Oct 7, 2010
For Raja Shehadeh
Labels:
Dead Sea,
Jerusalem,
Occupied Territories,
Palestine,
Palestinians,
West Bank
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