Wednesday, December 14, 2011

day one.

december thirteenth. 
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from the sky,
tripoli at night looks like fairy dust,
like magic, flung out across the landscape
by the majestic, the most merciful
each light a kindled hope,
every lamp a martyr

i press my face against the glass,
fall in love a hundred times
during the descent

a soldier with a gun stands guard
at the plane door, thanks god
we have arrived safely

i thank god he's alive,
that i'm alive,
that we're free. 

2 comments:

Hussein Al-Omari said...

I love it Nadia! Allah ye7fadik! Describes the poetic yet exciting scene of Tripoli at night for first time

Hussein Al-Omari said...

the opening paragraph is amazing Nadia Kamal Hemmali Dreid makes me feel sitting in your window seat with my face pressed against the window and looking down - those 5 lines just excellent from fairy dust to magic sparkles to candles to martyrs all describe well the scene