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