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On This Earth

We have on this earth what makes life worth living: April’s hesitation, the aroma of bread

at dawn, a woman’s point of view about men, the works of Aeschylus, the beginning

of love, grass on a stone, mothers living on a flute’s sigh and the invaders’ fear of memories.

We have on this earth what makes life worth living: the final days of September, a woman

keeping her apricots ripe after forty, the hour of sunlight in prison, a cloud reflecting a swarm

of creatures, the peoples’ applause for those who face death with a smile,

a tyrant’s fear of songs.

We have on this earth what makes life worth living: on this earth, the Lady of Earth,

mother of all beginnings and ends. She was called Palestine. Her name later became

Palestine. My Lady, because you are my Lady, I deserve life.