we are not numbers

emerging writers from Palestine tell their stories and advocate for their human rights

I walk through the dream

"It runs through my blood/I carry all its shades"
Several people up to their necks in water
Artist: Sliman Mansour. Above: Temporary Escape (2018).
Main image: Drowning Position (2019).

Behind the giant walls
I inherited a 74-year-old trauma
It runs through my blood
I carry all its shades

Green is the color of my soul
Brown are my roots
Gray is the shadow of my tears

Easy is the escape
Hard is the guilt
Fading away are the memories

The sea suffocates
The air chokes
Death is the sky
and the ground

Zeina Azzam.
Mentor: Zeina Azzam

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