Sunday, December 11, 2022

Fady Joudah


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All you have been and all 
you have experienced has happened to me.
I travel from my future to our past to lose 
my origins. What’s the beginning?
Where? There was a loophole, and I was the camel 
that went through. One hump or two?
The answers to my questions are beyond me 
but I only ask questions with answers I can believe.
I have seen the world without you in it 
and it’s not what you think.
In the future you will see 
that it was me who gave you the order to ruin my past.
In my past you will seem wicked.
I will not accept your innocence.

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