Few poems by Mahmoud Darwish💕

To mark my 300th post, I'm sharing a collection of poems by Mahmoud Darwish. His powerful words offer deep insights into love and separation. Enjoy!

I love you despite the nose of my tribe, my city and the chains of customs. But I'm afraid if I sell everyone, you will sell me and I'll return with disappointments.

'I felt like my homeland was occupied again.'

Out of my ignorance I called you a homeland, and I forgot that homelands are taken away.

Drink your coffee, embrace the silence, do not take people seriously, do not take life upon yourself, do not exaggerate your emotions, and do not please anyone against your will.

Don't befriend me for a day, and leave me a month. Don't get close to me if you're going to leave. Don't say what you don't do. Be close or get away.

A University degree, four books and hundreds of articles and I still make mistakes when reading. You wrote me 'good morning' and I read it as 'I love you'.

Poetry and beauty are always making peace.

When you read something beautiful you find

coexistence; it breaks walls down.

My longing weeps for everything. My longing shoots back at me, to kill or be killed."

I am the unlucky lover

I cannot give myself to you

And I cannot go back to myself.

And if happiness visits you again, do not remember it's previous betrayal. Enter into the happiness, and burst!

Being kind to those who hate us and harsh to those who love us, is the inferiority of the superior and arrogance of the inferior.

Yesterday, we were missing freedom. today,

we miss love. I'm afraid of tomorrow for

we will miss humanity.

The war will end. The leaders will shake hands. The old woman will keep waiting for her martyred son. That girl will wait for her beloved husband. And those children will wait for their heroic father. I don't know who sold our homeland. But I saw who paid the price.

When you want to leave, leave.

But don't ever come back, be faithful to leaving, maybe we'll also be faithful to forgetting you.

On the train we swapped seats, you wanted the window and I wanted to look at you.

I've spent all my life trying, trying not to lose my last hope.

Peace be upon the broken part in my heart, the one that does not make any noise.

I can't forget you, not because I have a strong memory, but because I have a heart that never

denies those who settled in it once."

...and just because you're a dream, I sleep a lot.

Maybe it was something not important to you, but it was my heart.

And just like the moon we should go

through phases of emptiness to feel full

again.

Maybe the moon is beautiful only because

it is far.

Tell me I am necessary, like sleep, like your mother's hug, like a prayer in the morning,

If it was good, it would remain. If he was a lover, he would tell. If he was longing, he would come.

How many times will longing and nostalgia break us? How many times will we write letters that won't reach? How many times will we wait for people who won't come?

And after every breaking, we realize that destiny has a different opinion, which doesn't resemble our dreams.

We went too far in thinking and forgot that

destinies are written."

All roads lead to you, even those I took to forget you.

Every flaw I love in you except your absence.

You are killing me and you are keeping me from dying, that is love.

You will be forgotten

as if you've never existed.

We once said that only death would tear us apart. Death was late and we spilt.

Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She is not a symbol.

Peace to a

land that was

created for peace,

and never saw a peaceful day.

~Mahmoud Darwish