Justice

In a dream: Ahmed Zaoui

By Ant / 3 July 2007

A hearing date is now set for the Security Risk Certificate against Zaoui (9 July to 10 August). This seemed a timely way of marking the occasion.

Poem for event marking 500 days imprisonment in New Zealand:

In a dream

I saw myself in a secluded village. Walking.
While walking and enjoying the beauty, an old man with a face of wood called me.
       Hey you stranger! Let me read your palm.

Greedily,
I believed him and I wanted to shake his hand.
He took my palm while his was shaking, returned it and immediately said:
           You stranger, you are accused.

He took his glasses, looked closely and said
You will die but not among us
He looked again and angrily said
   Don’t worry,
we will provide you a shroud and a coffin

Suddenly!
Birds appeared and told the old man

Leave him alone! He is of the people.

The old man replied
This is another accusation. He is a liar.

I woke up with the song:The awaited will return
The awaited will return
I asked myself, “will the awaited return”?
My love heard my whisper, The birds will surely come back, you will see your beloved again and
dates will be collected. The sun will rise and rain will fall.

“how long will I wait?”

I hid amongst my tears, my body shaking.
When will the awaited return?
How long will I wait?

-Ahmed Zaoui  (2004)

Words From Ahmed Zaoui www.freezaoui.org.nz