Other Berbers will come. <br />The emperor's wife will be abducted. <br />Drums will beat loudly. <br /> Drums will beat so that horses <br /> will leap over human bodies <br /> from the Aegean Sea to the Dardanelles. <br />So why should we be concerned? <br />What do our wives have to do with horse racing? <br />The emperor's wife will be abducted. <br /> Drums will beat loudly and other Berbers <br /> will come.Berbers will fill the cities' emptiness, <br /> slightly higher than the sea, <br /> mightier than the sword in a time of madness. <br /> So why should we be concerned? <br />What do our children have to do <br />with the children of this impudence? <br />Drums will beat loudly <br /> and other Berbers will come. <br />The emperor's wife will be taken <br /> from his bedroom. From his bedroom <br />he will launch a military assault <br /> to return his bedmate to his bed. <br /> Why should we be concerned? <br />What do fifty thousand victims <br /> have to do with this brief marriage? <br />Can Homer be born after us . . . <br /> and myths open their doors to the throng?<br /><br />Mahmoud Darwish<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/other-berbers-will-come/
