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I remember sitting outside
overlooking the city
with you.
I was young then
not yet petrified by truth.
You told me, mother,
those lights down there
were fireworks,
and fireflies,
and bonfires.
Why now,
are they car bombs
machine gun fire,
and witches
burning on the cross?
overlooking the city
with you.
I was young then
not yet petrified by truth.
You told me, mother,
those lights down there
were fireworks,
and fireflies,
and bonfires.
Why now,
are they car bombs
machine gun fire,
and witches
burning on the cross?
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From a series of poems that I wrote while trying to get over my pseudo artist's/writer's block.
This was one of the first to be written (according to the date, it was done on July 09).
I think the better ones were the oldest, because now they all seems cheesy and forced.
This poem originally had 'Gaza' instead of 'the city' because I wanted it to be from the point of view of a man, looking back on his childhood as an Israeli/Palestinian, and how his mother tried to hide the reality of all the inhumanities and suffering that surrounded him.
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(preview made via google image search, and Photoshop's Gradient Map)
This was one of the first to be written (according to the date, it was done on July 09).
I think the better ones were the oldest, because now they all seems cheesy and forced.
This poem originally had 'Gaza' instead of 'the city' because I wanted it to be from the point of view of a man, looking back on his childhood as an Israeli/Palestinian, and how his mother tried to hide the reality of all the inhumanities and suffering that surrounded him.
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(preview made via google image search, and Photoshop's Gradient Map)
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Wow, I thought that was rather intense. It really shows how things change when we realise the truth and how, when we're young, we're shielded by things.
I really liked it.
I really liked it.