Poem: I found it by Fadwa Tuqan

Fadwa tells us how her soul found her soul, maybe in a way of realization, of groin up and becoming a mature and wise human being. I like this poem because it talks about life and about the soul and I think life and death go hand by hand, they are not the opposite of one another, they complement each other, one could not have died if one wasn't alive. Life and death are such mysteries, do you really live everything you were meant or supposed to live? and, is there something else beyond death? The truth is nobody knows, only the dead knows what goes on after life and they are not here with us to tell us what goes on beyond that point.

I remember the professor asking us how we pictured our lives after reading the part were Fudwa says "I found it after a long wandering. It was a tender evergreen bough were birds took shelter, a bough bending gently under storms." and I never got the chance to explain how I portrayed or see my life, well I portray my life to be a strong cherry blossom tree in full bloom, with flowers as beautiful as can be, with Cicadas making noises to cheer my life up, under blue skies with a white cloud here and there, supported by a small stone that never breaks, lit at night by fireflies that never stop shinning under the starry sky, with some storms seldom striking down and wetting the soil but the small rock is always there to support the tree. That's how I see my life that is what I think when I need to find myself, I think myself as that beautiful tree and how I have the support of that little but strong rock and I think I can also say that my soul found my soul.