Apology

I mix up the killed, I with my almost photographic memory

lost now in the labyrinth of the dead

whose faces are carried forth by the martyrs of tomorrow.

The same hand killed them, those men with similar faces,

but their deaths demand remembrance.

The youthful face smiling through the years,

martyr Bassem Abu Rahma of Bi'lin, brother to martyr Jawaher,
leading the weekly protest.

16.04.2016