I came into your world Wrapped in my inherited desert shawls All my ancestors nomadic uncontrollable souls An immense mysterious heritage Do you comprehend what that implies? When you ask me to swap a desert infinite horizon With a one way trip to a door and walls?

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I came into your world
Wrapped in my inherited desert shawls
All my ancestors nomadic uncontrollable souls
An immense mysterious heritage
Do you comprehend what that implies?
When you ask me to swap a desert infinite horizon
With a one way trip to a door and walls?

in: Patty Paine, ‎Jeff Lodge, ‎Samia Touati (2011). Gathering the Tide: An Anthology of Contemporary Arabian Gulf Poetry. p. 252