I envy you
Who go to school:
I never did.
I envy you
Your breakfast
Your lunch
Your dinner
I envy you
Your quatayef
I even envy my cousins
Their deaths by
Bombs and bullets:
My dying was drawn out
My life, a slow death
You who are alive
Pray for me
Pray that no-one else
Lives like me
In vain
Dies like me
In vain:
I am Yazan al-Kafarneh
Sunder and Sonati have been living and growing a forest on a small piece of land in Thekambattu in rural Tamil Nadu for the last 20 years. You can read their blogs here and here.
The featured image is an illustration by Pariplab Chakraborty.