Hunger That Defeats Language
I fear hunger more than death, for it takes you in slow, devouring waves until you become a disintegrating shadow, unable even to scream.
Will anyone read this?
Will anyone believe that a writer could no longer write because he had nothing to eat?
Will anyone care that, in a corner of the world, people are starving so completely that their souls are silenced?
Perhaps not.
But I wrote this – despite everything.
To say that writing is possible.
Only if the body is allowed to survive.
By Husam Maarouf