Rising

<p>Let's dance over a rope</p><p>Love the comfort of our skeletons.</p><p>Let's travel further than our dreams.</p><p>Let's sing the chords that have rusted in our throats and the melody that's still in the cells of our brain.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Born and raised in Damascus where she fell in love with the power and the beauty of literature Najiba moved to Ireland then to the UK in the early 90s.</p><p><br></p><p><em>No Rush</em> was her first published work in English.</p>