A review by floatinthevoid
The Butterfly's Burden by Mahmoud Darwish

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

God, this collections of poetry made me feel things!! 

"Take me to the end
of the earth before morning rises on a moon that used
to cry blood in bed gently
as a star takes the dreamers in vain"

Sometimes it's seductive and intimate, sometimes it's detached and desolate. 

"After your night, night of the last winter,
the soldiers pitched their camp in a faraway place and a white moon alighted on my balcony
and I sat with my freedom silently staring into our night: Who am I? Who am I after your night
night of the last winter?"

He got the range! It's heartbreakingly beautiful overall.