Far from the massacre,
Close to the shrapnel,
This is how standing on a street threatened with evacuation is explained!

During the back-to-school season in parallel worlds,
My mother wonders how to pack the house into a school bag!
It takes her long hours, without putting anything specific inside!
She says, "Bring the bedding... The bag is too small!"
"Bring the wall, the window, and the lemon leaves," and the bag tears!
And she wonders again, how to carry the house in a bag!
Then she sighs, displaced for the fourth time, "By God, this makes one cry..."
She leaves the bag, then is forced to take the tent!

• Category: Poetry and Poems
• Author: Mona Al-Masdar
• Publisher: Dar Fadaat
• Year of Publication: 2025
• Edition: First
• Number of Pages: 272