Analysis of Ashes to Ashes, like a phoenix we are reborn
Nadine Firas Yaghi 1994 (jerusalem)
Ashes to Ashes, like a phoenix we are reborn
A poem by Nadine Yaghi
Standing at the edge of the rubble
I dream of a place where there is no struggle.
I dream of a life where I do not have to suffer.
My eyes are colourblind except for the shade of red
And my words are failing me except for the tears I shed
My limbs do not carry me anymore.
They are amputated.
What have I done?
To deserve being annihilated
I call out for my mother Gaza, but my voice turns into an echo
That travels beyond the realms of tombs that turned into a ghetto.
Abandoned even by the forces of nature.
For no human nor creature is safe from danger
A white cloak of death wraps around my burnt skin
That was once perfect but now is all brittle and thin
Yesterday seems like a dream
Where life was life and death was a natural theme
Today death is the conqueror and our white and blue oppressors
Bask in the glory of their demonic pleasures
Tomorrow is supposed to be another story but will tomorrow be even present?
To lift us to the skies as martyrs and free us from our depression
I look around me and all I see is destruction
Even the smell of the sea is mourning our extinction
Can anybody hear me or has the world gone deaf?
For I am still breathing
but time Is ticking as a bomb inside my chest
Yet I still rise as a phoenix from the ashes
And shout aloud as the wishes in my heart clashes
As the genocide continues and amplifies
Presidents sit still in their chairs,
contributing to the ethnic cleansing with their supplies
They say ashes to ashes and dust to dust
But every day as we endure and trust In god
for humanity has failed, and all the little souls have gone to waste
We are not just flesh and bones, we are superhumans
Created on earth for absolution.
So together we pray for peace and glory
We are not just numbers, we are holy.
Falsteen is our collective name, we are not nameless
Shame on all of them with their cowardly faces.
Falsteen is our identity and forever it shall be
Even if we end up buried beneath the sea
For the earth is weeping from the massive massacre
And can no longer contain our dismantled parts that plea to our ambassadors
Falsteen is a talisman that holds the key to return
Together we can rise and yearn
For better days to come and wash up all this pain
Together we can stand up and finally break the chain
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Metre | 1011010101111 0101011 101011010 11101111110 1110111111110 11110110111 01111010110111 111110101 11100 1111 101100100 111111010111101110 1100101111101010 010101010110 111011011110 01111101111 1110111111001 101101 111101101001 01110100010101010 100101101010 011011101010110111010 111101110011110010 1101101111010 100110111010010 1100011110111 111110 111101010111 111110101010 0101101001110 1010010010 1011011 01001010101101 11101100111 1100111010101 10100110101011111 1111101111 010111010 10101111010 1111101110 1110010111110 111111110010 111001000010111 101111100101 1011101010100 0111001100101111100100 1101001101101 01011101 110111011111 01011110100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 2,379 |
Words | 514 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 50 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 50 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
About this poem
This poem was inspired by the current war in the Gaza Strip as an Israeli Palestinian living in Jerusalem amid the longstanding conflict.
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