It rains in Beirut...

When clouds gather in the arab world, It rains in Beirut...

-anonymous

No Future

I live in a country with no future,
just an extended present
and an overwhelming past

Mother nature's savage beauty

A sufi saying...

Give me freedom to fly without a shadow,
Give me freedom to sing without an echo,
and to love without leaving traces.

Terribles battles!

Except for a battle lost, there is nothing so terrible as a battle won!

-David Weber

Hope flickers

Guttered dreams
Putrefying rubble
Hope flickers still

As opposed to what I wrote a few months ago:

Pristine boulevard
Sparklings facads
War lingers