Mahmoud Darwish has had 4 mothers

 " Quand il est mort le poete "

 

 

If death were to be an end

Mahmoud's death , was not .

 

If there is life after death

so why did Mahmoud die ??

 

If poets do not die

so why did Mahmoud leave us ??

 

 

If Palestine never existed

then

 what is this wound ??

 

 

If Palestinians do not exist

then who are all those stones-throwers

on Israeli-Tanks ??

 

Mahmoud Darwish 

once wrote :

" I am ashamed to die and so not to cause my mother's tears"

 

 

I saw his mother on the TV ,

crying with tears in her eyes.

 

 

Mahmoud has had four mothers :

his mother ,  my mother ,

Palestine and the wounded -humanity.

 

 

Raja Chemayel