The Power of Poetry

As a child, I don't have many memories of our talk, but police existence presence in our neighborhood was so constant that it was almost self-explanatory. One of my favorite memories is my mother used to be a poet. She would just read her poems in the morning to my father. And then she and my dad would play this game where they would guess which lines would be sent back from the paper because all of the papers are censored by the Israeli military censor. That was maybe my first awakening to the fact that even not only do we not have the freedom to resist or the freedom to defend ourselves, but we are even our political thought is criminalized. Even our very