The Fifth Day After Sajida’s Birth

We replaced the wounded  And borne the massacres While bullets were shot, we were the ones who fired the slain upon them And waited for the angel of war in queues  To replace the dead with the liveliest of us  And we waited for the authorities to issue the identification papers Before the birth
2015-03-29

Ali al-Jallawi

Bahrainian Poet


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We replaced the wounded 
And borne the massacres
While bullets were shot, we were the ones who fired the slain upon them
And waited for the angel of war in queues 
To replace the dead with the liveliest of us 
And we waited for the authorities to issue the identification papers
Before the birth certificate

We are all dead
 But some of us waited for more