
Location: Gaza, Palestine a week after the ceasefire Photograph: Duha Hasan
Poem: “Miracle Poem"
Basman Derawi’s Miracle Poem
Basman - Miracle Poem
Theme: Miracle Poem
I am the pain in the ass
Who asks too many questions.
I am a poet who is tiring his mentor,
Who wrote an ode to his bladder at the border
Instead of crying.
Who wrote an ode to the annoying drones.
I am the survivor who doesn't survive.
I am thirty-five years old, four wars, and a genocide.
I am a Palestinian who should have died years ago.
I am a miracle.