More Mahmoud Darwish, on the First Day of the Second Year into the Pandemic

في العزلة كفاءة المؤتمن على نفسه 

أن تكون وحيداً ، أن تكون قادرًا على أن تكون وحيداً هو تربية ذاتية

العزة هي انتفاء نوع الألم ، والتدرب على تصريف أفعال القلب بحريه العصامي

أو ما يشبه خلوك من خارجك و بصوتك الاضطراري نفسك بلا مظله نجاة

تجلس وحدك كفكره حالية من حجه البرهان ، دون أن تحدس بما يدور من حوار بين الظاهر والباطن

العزلة مصفاة لا مرآة

Solitude is good training for self-reliance

To be alone, to be alone is a form of self-education

Solitude is choosing a sort of pain, training to conjugate the verbs of the heart with the freedom of the self-sufficient

Or being more or less detached from your exterior self and forced to plunge inside yourself without a parachute for survival

You sit on your own, like an idea unencumbered by argumentation, not trying to guess the dialogue between the outward and inward

Solitude is a filter, not a mirror