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"Words are heavier than iron," the man said. He pulled a small, worn notebook from his shirt. This was his arsenal. In a land where people were stripped of their names and given numbers, where identity cards defined who was allowed to exist, he wrote to reclaim the self.

I don’t want this poem to end because I am afraid of the dark, afraid of the day after the poem, and I don’t want my soul to fly away like a sparrow from a broken window. darwish poems