For Ismail Al-Ghoul and Rami Al-Rifi
By Heba Al-Agha
Translated by Julia Choucair Vizoso
No grief to bear in this city
no wall to weep on
no helmet
no armor to carry us
All, too heavy for our bodies
no friendly ally
to panic to: see how quickly people die here
nothing to keep us from death
but death itself.
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Heba Al-Agha is a mother, amateur writer, and creative writing educator at the A.M. Qattan Foundation in Gaza City. She does not belong to any writers’ unions and has not published any literary books, but works with an army of young writers training them in freedom and the power of writing. She writes at t.me/hebalaghatalkwar andhttps://gazastory.com/archives/author/hebaaga.
Julia Choucair Vizoso is an independent scholar and seasonal translator. She hopes Heba Al-Agha’s words move you to refuse and resist the Israel-US genocide of the Palestinian people and destruction of Lebanon, wherever and however you can.