{"id":1083,"date":"2021-04-30T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-rawiya.com\/?p=595"},"modified":"2023-08-22T12:09:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T12:09:11","slug":"article-a-city-draped-in-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-rawiya.com\/ar\/article-a-city-draped-in-white\/","title":{"rendered":"A City Draped in White"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1083\" class=\"elementor elementor-1083\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5dba2edf elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5dba2edf\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-716e143b\" data-id=\"716e143b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2f218e21 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2f218e21\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">Saints are quiet in their mountaintops,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trees are hardened ash,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Buildings have lost their colors,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shrapnel rests in the garden,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flags remain hoisted high, on steel poles made of bullets that struck down martyrs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br \/>Droplets of debris,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Falling out of the hands of charity,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have silenced the streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friends have lost papers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friends are looking for the dirt to rest in<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friends are wide-eyed in desperation and mute in person<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Maggots survive-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The procession moves forward<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A publisher is prayed for by sanitizers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Journalists take dry notes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Musicians sip their beers awaiting French anthems<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Painters find another shade of grey<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A poet across the oceans laments over his foreign ink<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The photographer flashes light over a private sight<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A father sheds no tears over salted soil<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The wooden box carved out of forgotten symbols is carried<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To the spot where a teenager once envisioned eternity<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now enshrined with entropy,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under words and numbers being eroded by whispers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To a memory that never happened,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beneath a tombstone being swallowed by the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-coblocks-click-to-tweet\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-coblocks-click-to-tweet__text\">&#8220;The wooden box carved out of forgotten symbols is carried<br \/>To the spot where a teenager once envisioned eternity<br \/>Now enshrined with entropy,<br \/>Under words and numbers being eroded by whispers,<br \/>To a memory that never happened.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saints are quiet in their mountaintops, Trees are hardened ash, Buildings have lost their colors, Shrapnel rests in the garden, Flags remain hoisted high, on steel poles made of bullets that struck down martyrs. Droplets of debris, Falling out of the hands of charity, Have silenced the streets. 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