Today Nablus is covered with snow,
A marked change from the colour red,
Yesterday was Valentine's Day,
Up all night and I could not go to bed,
Thinking of love lost,
And words I shouldn't have said.
But if it is cold Outside,
I must stay warm Inside,
And remind my soul of the goal ahead:
A face I must meet at my journey's end,
A paradise with nothing in disguise,
Where true love is no more veiled.

Shaden in the beginning and Shaden at the end,
A wife, mother, grandmother, and a friend.
The bullets of hate did not stop the birth
Of love on this planet,
And the candle I will light
Will glow despite
The darkness of "their" souls,
Illuminating the path of emancipation
For the wretched of the earth.