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THINGS MY CHILDREN NEED TO KNOW
Husayn Al-Kurdi
July 19, 2010 Dear Children: there are some things you may not know but need to know That flowing through your veins is a long river of ancient blood running through historical cities which smoulder on fire Our features are most distinctly characterized by our almondine brown eyes, eyes which have seen too much eyes which lapse into dreams whether open or shut Arab eyes Eyes which others ask to gaze upon to drink and swim in and be haunted with and be gazed upon by not knowing exactly why Your grandmother is the decisive one though true that her mother was half-Circassian and her father reputed to be a Kurd whose lineage goes back to being Black from the sandy wastes of the continent which they vainly and erroneously Christened "Africa" though her mother was a Shiraz honey claimed by Persia on her father's side She herself was a purple Rose of Cairo (a real one) and a Beauty of Baghdad a Tigress of the Tigris and faithful daughter of Iraq Her dusky resplendence haunts all my dawns and she goes on where you go she is what you are dimly aware of you sense and feel her as you do your own father in unguarded moments when those Arab eyes close and flutter, dreaming or are wide open, also dreaming of another world which we came from and long for and embody Watch the sun rise over the sea feel the dancing sands of evening in the desert embrace the cool breeze of Arabian autumn nights edge around the bustle of Khan Khalili dip your feet in the timeless Tigris Share a confidence with the Sphinx which crouches under the Great Pyramid which your father climbed as a boy: in these places you may find your own bearings. |
:: Article nr. 68098 sent on 20-jul-2010 18:20 ECT www.uruknet.info?p=68098
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