Fadel K Jabr

The Question Tree



My neighbor,

Whom I don’t know

Since twenty silences;

Accused me

For the question tree

Which I planted on the borders

Between his heart and mine!

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The police,

Who watched

Our entangled emotions, said:

It is a strange tree, indeed!

But we have to catch it in the action

Therefore, I myself

Will take the mission of an observer!

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The judge,

Who studied the case carefully, decided:

Planting question trees

To be generalized

In every part of the planet!