If you are not rain, my love | A poem by Mahmoud Darwish, 2002

Samia Halaby, Untitled (from the Dome of the Rock series), 1981

If you are not rain, my love
Be tree
Sated with fertility, be tree
and If you are not tree, my love
Be stone
Saturated with humidity, be stone
and If you are not stone, my love
be moon
In the dream of your beloved one, be moon
[So spoke a woman
to her son at his funeral]

Mahmoud Darwish, State of Siege, 2002