365 sq km
Aicha bint Yusif
Can these skies contain so much pain?
Can my heart carry more disdain
To humans and white laws?
Can 365 sq km contain so much sorrow?
Can my head house more horror
At scenes of limbs dangling from cement.
Cycles of pain, cycles of rage,
How else can I break the chains?
How else can I not let the rage consume me?
They tell me, turn your rage into a song.
But even that cannot set us free.
Aicha bint Yusif is a 26 year old Palestinian living in Haifa (Israel/Occupied Palestine). She holds an English literature degree and is currently studying Medicine. She is passionate about poetry, and her works appeared in World Literature Today (NYC) and Rusted Radishes(American University of Beirut). She also likes yoga, making crafts and learning languages (she speaks Arabic, Hebrew, English, Spanish and a bit of German and French).