Being

Suleiman al-fulayyih 1950 (Hammad desert)



Till when will we continue
to engage in this madness?
When will we strive, my friend, to be
not as others imagine us
but as we wish ourselves
to be?
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Submitted on January 29, 2021

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Characters 143
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Suleiman al-fulayyih

Sulaiman Al-Falih, a Saudi poet from the Bedouin desert more…

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