Poetry from Gaza: Nadine Murtaja

    Anjana Gurung
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    I am Nadine Murtaja, I am 21 years old.I am dentistry student,but the war prevented me from completing my studies due to the destruction of universities by Israeli occupation.I have been practicing my hobby, which is writing ,since I was 16 years old.My hobby in live is to strive to live it by all means and to defend the Palestinian cause until my last breath in this life.


    And if the death
    doesn't suffocate me
    the Smoke will
    Carrying memories,screams
    the remains of families
    from years ago

    Smoke that announces
    the burial of new civil record
    into a mutilated grave,

    I now fear counting.
    I fear numbers will turn
    In my head

    I count stars
    Only to realize

    They are warplanes
    Delivering souls,
    to their final abode

    When my mother
    saw a bright white light,
    She told me
    tenderly
    What a dazzling star it was.


    Until the light Departed ,
    stealing more voices
    from the streets .

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