Haifa in the distance
Teaches us to dive
with the Horizon
Poem and Artwork by Jamil Daraghmeh
I am forbidden to go to the Sea. It is so close. I can almost see it from the mountain where I live. But it is so far away - behind checkpoints and walls. Living in this prison, I can only see the beauty of the Sea in the pools of rainwater that collect in these cement roads, leading nowhere, and in the clouds above the foreign fortresses that dominate the heights, and the cobwebs that pour down the stones in a gurgling waterfall.
