My Love, I Fear The Silence Of

Sometimes I Feel As If I Am Read Before I Write. When I Write A Poem About My Mother, Palestinians Think My Mother Is A Symbol For Palestine. But I Write As A Poet, And My Mother Is My Mother. She's Not A Symbol.

The Palestinians Are The Only Nation In The World That Feels With Certainty That Today Is Better Than What The Days Ahead Will Hold. Tomorrow Always Heralds A Worse Situation.

I Am Not A Lover Of Israel, Of Course. I Have No Reason To Be. But I Don't Hate Jews.

I Am From There. I Am From Here. I Am Not There And I Am Not Here. I Have Two Names, Which Meet And Part, And I Have Two Languages. I Forget Which Of Them I Dream In.

I Have Learned And Dismantled All The Words In Order To Draw From Them A Single Word: Home.