M I C H A E L F E S S A H A Z I O N
__________________________________________________________N A Q R A
Translated by Charles Cantalupo & Ghirmai Negash
At dead center
The sea
Has no fish,
No ships, no storms and no tides
But an island –
Naqra!All that the storms and tides
And the surrounding water
Reveal
Is desolation
With nothing
To keep a human
Or anything alive
Except the unreachable
Stars above and fish below.The sea has nothing to show
But Naqra,
Lonely in the distance,
Graceless,
Smelling only of death
And hell.You know the history –
How many of our people
Fighting for our country
And imprisoned there,
Succumbed in despair
On Naqra.
[ page 1 of 1 ]