Bless poetry books that cross oceans
in battered envelopes,
bearing small flames of words.
Quotes from Geographies of Light — Lisa Suhair Majaj
born 1960 Palestine
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No matter how far you've come, remember:
the starting line is always closer than you think.
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Part of it hides behind the headlines
where this shard of the story will never be told.
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These words are the weight
cupped in our palms:
the small broken note of freedom.
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The distance between one breath and another
is like the miles starlight travels to reach
my dreams.
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Did my parents know
that what they planted,
roots against the drought,
would survive?
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The sun will rise again tomorrow,
vigilant and weary as hope.
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Now we walk out into the tunnel of days
and a million memories rustle
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She took her slice of life
then gave without measuring
or counting
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what's left but
shards of memory
smoothed and hoarded,
shrapnel griefs,
a few regrets?
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till the moon rises,
the night opens,
and all the stars shine out.
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lisa Suhair Majaj (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.