Be A Neutral Hero

Acrylic On Canvas Painting by : 

Yasmeen Abdullah -

I have a seat in the abandoned theater

Actors tear up their scripts and search for the author among us, we the witnesses sitting in our seats.

 I say to my neighbor the artist: Don't brandish your weapon, and wait, unless you are the author!

And he asks me: Are you the author? No

And we sit frightened. I say: Be a neutral hero to escape a clear fate

So he says: A hero doesn't die glorified in the second scene. I'll wait for the rest. Perhaps I made an adjustment to one of the chapters. And perhaps I fixed what iron did to my brothers

So I say: Are you then?

He replies: You and I are masked authors and masked witnesses.

I say: What's it to me? I'm a spectator

So he says: There's no spectator at the mouth of an abyss... and no one here is neutral. And you must choose your role in the end

So I say: I lack the beginning, what is the beginning?

Mahmoud Darwish