{"id":15870,"date":"2009-12-31T07:38:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T07:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/2009\/12\/31\/dont-tell-us-a-year-has-passed\/"},"modified":"2011-07-25T23:52:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T21:52:44","slug":"dont-tell-us-a-year-has-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/2009\/12\/31\/dont-tell-us-a-year-has-passed\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t tell us a year has passed&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/gazaregen.jpg' title='gazaregen.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/gazaregen.jpg' alt='gazaregen.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gaza, Where Time Stood Still &#8211; A Poem<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Samah Sabawi <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t tell us a year has passed\u2026<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWe don&#8217;t measure our lives by this calendar<\/p>\n<p>Time has stood still for us so long ago<\/p>\n<p>Punctuated only by loss and grief<\/p>\n<p>And the in between moments of quite reprieve<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t count on Christmas, nor Eid for cheer<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t fool ourselves with \u201chappy new year\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No occasion is ever taken for granted,<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to tomorrow, there are no certainties<\/p>\n<p>Our yesterday is our today<\/p>\n<p>Time is frozen here<\/p>\n<p>And one calendar year<\/p>\n<p>Will never contain our lives,<\/p>\n<p>Our collective misery,<\/p>\n<p>Our yearning for humanity<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t tell us a year has passed<\/p>\n<p>Our clock stopped ticking when justice collapsed<\/p>\n<p>Eclipsed by decades of repression<\/p>\n<p>Hush\u2026 don\u2019t speak of time<\/p>\n<p>We have endured the absence of time<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t measure our lives by days like you<\/p>\n<p>We measure our lives by the number of embraces<\/p>\n<p>Our worth by a lover\u2019s heartbeat<\/p>\n<p>Our existence by our persistence<\/p>\n<p>So, don\u2019t tell us a year has passed\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Samah Sabawi is a  writer playwright and poet. She was born in Gaza and is currently residing in Melbourne Australia. She contributed this poem to PalestineChronicle.com. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palestinechronicle.com\/view_article_details.php?id=15655\">Hier.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaza, Where Time Stood Still &#8211; A Poem By Samah Sabawi Don&#8217;t tell us a year has passed\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52876,"href":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15870\/revisions\/52876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}