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I wept until my tears were dry
I prayed until the candles flickered
I knelt until the floor creaked
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Nizar Qabbani
Fathers Sons
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Karoline 04 November 2019

There is a line missing in the translation (btw why the translator is not mentioned?) : „Who will save Christ from the ones who killed Christ? “ maybe you left the second line out to not arouse antijewish tendencies, bit Nizar Qabbani was not antisemitic at all and his poem need to be translated and quoted correctly

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Nizar Qabbani

Nizar Qabbani

Damascus / Syria
Nizar Qabbani
Nizar Qabbani
Damascus / Syria
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