A page from the notebook of Rehab, 14:
I would like to dedicate another poem to Laura and Tasneem.
If I wasn’t infected with bird flu,
I would have sent you a kiss with the birds.
Rehab's Grandparents:
I would like to dedicate another poem to Laura and Tasneem.
If I wasn’t infected with bird flu,
I would have sent you a kiss with the birds.
Rehab's Grandparents:
A few pages from the notebook of Marwah, 18, who just learned to read and write this year:
1. How much I wish I could travel Alone with no human being Bear witness to my generation Without darkness, without safety Without Without a past. Who has a deep painful wound Without a present. Take me with you. Without kindness, without longing Just a heart that holds memories and pains of time. 4. Foreigners have their pain. Those who have lived it Understand it. There will be a happy victory That comes knocking on my heart’s door. God please let it come soon And I won’t ask for anything after it. 5. If only wounds were like pain They go away leaving no trail If you want to enter my heart Enter gently Because my mom lays in it Sadness is... If the heart died Then mercy is gone And if the mind died Wisdom is lost And if consciousness died Then everything doesn’t exist... I sing in silence. | 2. What a beauty For a voice to echo And for a flower to have dew But what is greater: Friendship that lasts a lifetime Shakes the earth. 3. I am tired of Jordan And long for Daraa Just the refugees We are coming back to Syria. What a strange world Every time we embrace you You make us cry. How hard it is to love someone And know that it does not belong to you My country... Syria is bleeding And the world knows. Embrace me with your hardness. 7. Patience is the key But it looks like they changed the lock And took the keys with them. I dream of a world filled with Flowers, let me Dream innocently. I dream of getting as much as I can Of knowledge. I dream of always being under The spotlight instead of Being under The darkness. Let me Dream. |
Photos from the last roll of Balqees, 16, who took 625 photos in her last 2 days:
The Khaldiya camera move: