Speech in the unemployment market
Samih Al-Qassim *
- Perhaps miss – if you wish – my livelihood
- Maybe sell my clothes and my mattress
- Perhaps you work in the quarry … as charger … or scanner
- Maybe look grains in manure
- Maybe get naked and hungry
- But not sell me
- O sun enemy
- And to the last beat of my veins
- Maybe I despojes the last inch of my land
- Perhaps imprison my youth
- Maybe I steal the inheritance of my ancestors
- Furniture … utensils and pots
- Maybe get burned my poems and my books
- Maybe t shoot my body to the dogs
- Perhaps uprisings terrors of terror on our village
- But not sell me
- O sun enemy
- And to the last beat of my veins
- I will resist
- Perhaps quench all the lights in my night
- Perhaps deprive me of the tenderness of my mother
- Maybe my story falsifiques
- Perhaps thou shouldest masks to fool my friends
- Perhaps uprisings walls and walls around me
- Maybe I crucifiques one day before unworthy shows
- But not sell me
- O sun enemy
- And to the last beat of my veins
- I will resist
- O sun enemy
- The port overflows with beauty … and signs
- Boats and joys
- Cries and demonstrations
- The patriotic songs burst throats
- And on the horizon … there are candles
- Defying the wind … the storm and frank obstacles
- It is the return of Ulysses
- Sea of deprivation
- The return of the sun … my exiled people
- And for your eyes
- O sun enemy
- I swear I will not sell out
- And to the last beat of my veins
- I will resist
- I will resist
- I will resist
- * Samih Al-Qassim was born in Zarqa, within a Druze family. Formed teacher, after the publication of his first poems was banned by the Israelis to exercise the profession.
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