How beautifully buildings collapse.
How deep their voices are as they die...

You kept wondering
when will peace take over...

You seem to enclose a peaceful cave,
and I a wolf ashamed of solitude...

What makes me feel so sad,
I do not know...

Roses in your stiff hands
melt my heart...

The gales howled down
out of my house...

I took fire from the amber
you hid under the pillow...

How the tiny pallid billows struggle their way to...
by: Rania Moallem...

Why are all the bright
rainbows gone at night...

Tonight, like many ordinary Gaza nights,
there are wounded babies...

From the sieges around me
from the dust that's choking me...

Long are the days
of hapless persons...