We’re all born with the greatest treasures we’ll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your heart.
I loved her in spite of myself. I loved her immeasurably.Infinitely. And I feared that love as much as I feared my own fury at theworld.
I know she is crying. Her tears fall on the wrong side, into the bottomless well inside her.
You and I are the remains of an unfulfilled legacy, heirs to a kingdom of stolen identities and ragged confusion.
Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.
Amal,I believe that most Americans do not love as we do. It is not for any inherent deficiency or superiority in them. They live in the safe, shallow, parts that rarely push human emotions into the depths where we dwell.
I feel sad for him. Sad for the boy bound to the killer. I am sad for the youth betrayed by their leaders for symbols and flags and war and power.
Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand.
The soldiers in my life had raised the bar for bad guys.
Would words shatter the immensity of life and death so close to one another?
Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the worlds indifference to spilled Arab blood.