PalFest 2010 Najwan Darwish - Bint Jbeil
Channel: The Palestine Festival of Literature
Date: 03/12/2010

Najwan Darwish performs at the 2010 Palestine Festival of Literature



My images and allegories are sleeping in beds,
broken and sick and I can do nothing, broken
before dawn in front of the TV, trying to pray
for those who are defending Bint Jbeil tonight.  
How could he pray, he believes in nothing?
After a while, dawn will expose the murders
and I will go to sleep broken down by the amount
of debt I carry for those who erected dawn another day
on the hills of Bint Jbeil.

(July, 2006)

Translated by Andrew Nance