Mostafa Mouhibe, who is from Morocco, has sent us this delightful poem. A wonderful mixture of the serious and the (almost) flippant it seems to me that Mostafa is demanding a response from his readers. So come on then, what is stopping you?!
Fitch
Mostafa Mouhibe, who is from Morocco, has sent us this delightful poem. A wonderful mixture of the serious and the (almost) flippant it seems to me that Mostafa is demanding a response from his readers. So come on then, what is stopping you?!
Fitch
From a very starting point the poet conveys the value of altruism: “… don’t think that me or I is me!/It may be you, she or even we.”
He needs to emphasise the importance of “the other”: ” … for with him or her we are made to live together.”
He looks very sensitive to differences, and he cautiously adverts to be avoided concepts like ” clash of civilizations”, “conflict of cultures”, preferring “a fusion of theirs”.
The poem ends up justifying the poet’s view of integration, we think.