Mahmoud Darwish - Palestinian Voice

[To a Killer] If you had contemplated the victim's face

And thought it through,
you would have remembered your mother in the Gas Chamber,
you would have been freed from the reason for the rifle

And you would have changed your mind: this is not the way

to find one's identity again ........

....

Alone, we are alone as far down as the sediment

Were it not for the visits of the rainbow ....

.....

A woman told the cloud: cover my beloved

For my clothing is drenched with his blood

Mahmoud Darwish died on Saturday 9th August aged 67

He was the Palestinian conscience. He had a very clear vision not only of who we are

but who we should be ...... Hanan Ashrawi