Mohammed Moussa

When you see how you didn't need to address words and meanings in poetry in order for the word to understand.

And this is clear in your poetry, the face before you.

And this was a bit strange for me as a poet.

But, again, my role has switched, you know, and I have to archive these places, what Jabaliya means to me, what Al-Lisatar means to me.

I need to remind the world of these places and tell them they were here, they existed.

I had a family before this.

I had loved ones and it wasn't easy at all, but it was very, very necessary to document this genocide and to tell the world we lived these things, we've been through this.

So when anybody, any reader wants to know more about

these times and our families and the places we cherish and what they mean to us, they can go back to these collections and read from them.

My death is not a song for you to sing It's not a marsh for you to walk in It's not a shirt for you to wear It's not a road that carries my name

My life is a city besieged by a weeping sea.

You do not hear her cries.

I can hear you singing.

I can see you marching.

Do not forget the names of the land.

Do not forget the name of the land that you've turned into a graveyard of souls who sang for their city until their final breaths.

My death is not a song for you to sing.

Well, I would say thank you to Ron Camus Press, Neil, because he approached me and said, would love to publish your work.

And the same also with Peter Burnett.

He appreciated what I write, especially during the genocide.