We are accused of terrorism if we defended rose and woman and the mighty verse and the blueness of sky We are accused of terrorism if we wrote about the ruins of a homeland a homeland with no address a nation with no name a dominion wherein birds are forbidden from chirping a homeland wherein, out of terror, its writers got accustomed to write about nothing, no beginning, no end no relation with peoples worry mother earth, and the crisis of man. We are accused of terrorism if we revolted against the rape of people if we defended the last stars in our sky the last syllabi of our names the last milk in our mothers bosoms. We are accused of terrorism if we defended what we wrote El azure of our sea and the aroma of ink if we defended the freedom of the word. If this was our sin how beautiful is terrorism. I am with terrorism if it is able to free a people from tyrants and tyranny if it is able to save man from the cruelty of man I am with terrorism with all my poetry with all my words and all my teeth as long as this new world order is in the hands of butchers. - Nizar Qabbani
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 00:51:58 +0000
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