Resistance

Aicha bint Yusif

My heart—that heap of special muscular tissue—

Has ossified witnessing the genocide, and became stone.

I want to hold it with my hand

And throw it toward the israeli tank.

Maybe then, it will become a song.

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).

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