Mohammed Moussa

I was asked to do some newspapers here in the UK, but I couldn't.

not in school but i couldn't work my nerves my health couldn't focus on a story to finish and i only found poetry a way to talk to the world and i was hit by the loss of my family and i felt like i can't walk on a story because this is this has already happened to me and happening

to everybody around me.

What could I say?

To whom should I speak?

And about what exactly?

So I was asking myself questions.

And after the loss of my family in this genocide, it was really hard for me to even speak.

and to find the time and the way to express this grief.

And the thing is, it was only through poetry I was able to speak before the death of my family and after.

the killing of my family there is something strange about poetry and beautifully strange for sure that it gives you that space to contain what you could not say to what you could not understand but still could be said could be understood

I can't honestly say the right number, but it was my own family.

It was my mother, my father, my sister Hind and her kids around.

five kids.

My sister, my youngest sister, Saja, and my cousins also who were together in the same house.

But I cannot call out the right number of the family members that I've lost because I lost so many cousins.

In the beginning.

I mean, in the beginning and until now.

Writing poetry is something private, right?

Like as a poet, you write poetry.