Mohammed Moussa

Love is everywhere.

You find love wherever you go.

The idea of showing love was not easy, as it was.

And I remember my first poem, Love and Rebirth, in Gaza, talks about this subject.

you could show the love for so many things and it was really hard as a Palestinian to find the time to talk about love because the word only listens to you when it is time for war and during the times of war

it's really hard for you to bring love and what love is but I know as a Gazan that love could live in war and in peace and that love is always there with you as a Palestinian the thing is it's up to the world when they

when they listen to us, when they read our poetry.

It's hard for them to separate our love and our love poems from our political.

And I wish they know that it's always about love for us.

It is the love of our women, the love of our homeland.

I mean, in writing poetry in the times of genocide was an outlet for me to express what I wanted to talk to the world about and the poems found their ways to the world

in a way I couldn't imagine.

Because if I would surrender to the silence of what I have been feeling, I wouldn't say a word.

But Putri talked to the word in a beautiful way that made the word listen more to what

I was to what I wanted to say about Gaza, about my family, about home, about memory, about loss, absence, and so many things.

And it offered me a way to relieve that anger, to take that anger out of my chest again because of what poetry is.

Maybe it's a whistle to all of what I have lived, to what I was feeling regarding what was happening to my family, to all the families.

to my city, to all the cities in Palestine.

And again, there were times I couldn't speak.

Poetry made the unspeakable speakable and made