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“الكلام ما يشيلش جثة
الكلام...ما فيهش دم
الكلام ما فيهوش هجوم و لا تراجع
الكلام مالوش لجان
الكلام ماهوش محاصر بالمدافع
لا دكاكينه بتقفل
و لا تتسمم غيطانه
و لا قاطعين عنه نوره أو مياهه
و لا ممنوع م العمل
و لا مشلول بالحصار الإقتصادي
و لا بالغاز المسيّل للدموع
و لا بيعاني عطش و يعاني جوع
زي أصغر طفل ف الوطن المقاتل
نسكتوا و الا نحاول؟
لأ نحاول”
― الموت علي الأسفلت
الكلام...ما فيهش دم
الكلام ما فيهوش هجوم و لا تراجع
الكلام مالوش لجان
الكلام ماهوش محاصر بالمدافع
لا دكاكينه بتقفل
و لا تتسمم غيطانه
و لا قاطعين عنه نوره أو مياهه
و لا ممنوع م العمل
و لا مشلول بالحصار الإقتصادي
و لا بالغاز المسيّل للدموع
و لا بيعاني عطش و يعاني جوع
زي أصغر طفل ف الوطن المقاتل
نسكتوا و الا نحاول؟
لأ نحاول”
― الموت علي الأسفلت
“It’s dark because you are trying too hard.
Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.
Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.
I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig.
Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me.
When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic.
No rhetoric, no tremolos,
no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell.
And of course, no theology, no metaphysics.
Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light.
So throw away your baggage and go forward.
There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet,
trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair.
That’s why you must walk so lightly.
Lightly my darling,
on tiptoes and no luggage,
not even a sponge bag,
completely unencumbered.”
― Island
Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.
Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.
I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig.
Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me.
When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic.
No rhetoric, no tremolos,
no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell.
And of course, no theology, no metaphysics.
Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light.
So throw away your baggage and go forward.
There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet,
trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair.
That’s why you must walk so lightly.
Lightly my darling,
on tiptoes and no luggage,
not even a sponge bag,
completely unencumbered.”
― Island
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