Stranger in the coffin

Posted by: adonis49 on: July 4, 2017

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“The Stranger”. Poem by late Palestinian Mahmoud DarwishThis person was a stranger to me

I had no idea what she could have done before

I saw a coffin, people in mourning

I walked with her, her head low, in an important respect attitude

She was walking ahead of me.

I found no opportunity to ask her my well-composed questions

“Who is in the coffin? How this late person died? How it lived?”

Of the many ways people dies from,

I can vouch for one that I experienced

“Living badly”

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