Muhammad Najem, 15 Year Old Photojournalist

Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Muhammad Najem 15 yo photojournalist from Eastern Ghouta, compliments of Missy Morton



Crossing to the Other Shore

©2018 Karla Johnston,
InnerConstellation.com

When I push off and place both feet in the boat,
I am received immediately by calm, dark sea.
I turn, look back at land boundaries, previously defined:
hard edges where I’ve come from dissolve
as clear water softens shore.

Moon hangs full, brilliant, peaceful in an open sky.
Sometimes, all freedom takes is the willingness
to no longer stay on demarcated ground.


(Poem written in response to bombings in Eastern Ghouta and the photo journalism of a 15 yearold boy who hopes for a brighter tomorrow)


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