An Oriental
Tapestry
Identity
Forged out
of bitter and total defeat.
Hammered
out of an unwarranted feeling of conceit.
Knitted
out of most foolish lies and most obvious acts of deceit.
Woven in
the full blinding light of other people’s history -
an oriental tapestry of shame,
an inauspicious sense of semi-identity,
my identity, no matter how unchosen,
as a modern day Arab.
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