Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
Reply #699 - February 11, 2011, 05:07 PM
Arab children,
Corn ears of the future,
You will break our chains.
Kill the opium in our heads,
Kill the illusions.
Arab children,
Don't read about our suffocated generation,
We are a hopeless case,
As worthless as a water-melon rind.
Don't read about us,
Don't ape us,
Don't accept us,
Don't accept our ideas,
We are a nation of crooks and jugglers.
Arab children,
Spring rain,
Corn ears of the future,
You are the generation that will overcome defeat.
-Nizar Qabbani
"If intelligence is feminine... I would want that mine would, in a resolute movement, come to resemble an impious woman."