
Location: Gaza, Palestine a week after the ceasefire Photograph: Duha Hasan
Poem: I Had a Dream
Theme: Freedom-Huriye-Azadi
I had a dream
I went back home
Slept on my bed
Felt warmth again
I had a dream
I went to college
Nagged all day
How hectic it was
I had a dream
I wanted to live
I had a dream
I had my favourite meal
I had a dream
My ear forgot the war’s sounds
shouting, bombardment, mother’s sobs, and losses
I had a dream
My eyes forgot the blood, the loss, the patience
Obligatory patience
My nose forgot the smoke smell, the deaths, the corpse rotten
My hands stopped shivering
My body skipped what lived
I had a dream
Not panicking
Not imagining death everywhere
I had a dream