This Stranger in the coffin
Posted by: adonis49 on: August 2, 2020
This Stranger in the coffin
“The Stranger”. Poem by late Palestinian Mahmoud Darwish
This 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, (the masses of mourners?)
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 died from,
I can vouch for one that I experienced
“Living badly”
Note: The mourners have been strangers in Palestine since 1948, the establishment of colonial implant of Israel
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