The Tragedy of Narcissus The Comedy of Silver

I am a supporter of the Palestinian cause and love Mahmoud Darwish for the eloquence and emotion of his writing. These lines are excerpted from a very long and very poignant poem that I cannot stop reading.

As for places of exile, they are places and times that change their kin
they are the evenings that dangle from windows that look upon no one
they are the arrivals to coasts aboard a ship that has lost its horses
they are the birds that exceed the eulogy of their songs . . . and the land
that belongs to the throne, and abbreviates nature in a body.

- Mahmoud Darwish; Translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah