I AM From There! - Mahmoud Darwish
أنا من هناك
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I Come From There
I come from there and I have memories
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Born as mortals are, I have a mother
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And a house with many windows,
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I have brothers, friends,
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And a prison cell with a cold window.
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Mine is the wave, snatched by sea-gulls,
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I have my own view,
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And an extra blade of grass.
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Mine is the moon at the far edge of the words,
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And the bounty of birds,
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And the immortal olive tree.
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I walked this land before the swords
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Turned its living body into a laden table.
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I come from there. I render the sky unto her mother
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When the sky weeps for her mother.
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And I weep to make myself known
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To a returning cloud.
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I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood
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So that I could break the rule.
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I learnt all the words and broke them up
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To make a single word: Homeland.....
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