© Nizar Alhattab 
© Dirk Engelage

Each on her own 
remembers and relives, 
suffers in silence, 
hopes and dreams 
of better days, 
of a return perhaps 
of what was lost, 
although she knows 
that is impossible, 
and yet ...

and sometimes, 
as a miracle, these 
thoughts and feelings 
can be shared 
with little words, 
an eye to eye, 
a warm embrace 
can be enough 
...