A Human Without Colors

My friend asks me: Why are you sad? I respond: How beautiful are the colors of sadness My friend asks me: Do you love the color of death? I respond: Death may revive the human My friend says: You are strange I respond: Being a stranger in my country is an address She says to me: You are mad I say: My madness is the truest proof

Anwar El-Abd Khalil is an Egyptian writer and poet who writes poetry in classical Arabic and the Egyptian dialect. Before this, he has never published any of his collections.