Part I
"I will not hate for you, or even hate you"
Leadership is called but she won't follow, terrible things have been done, but she can't find the hate to hate those who have caused it.
"I will not side with you, or dance to bombs because everyone is dancing, because everyone can be wrong"
Just because a majority or many people will do one thing, doesn't mean it is correct. One side can not be the right one to everyone.
"Which male child will perish a new day?"
Children are set out to fight, others run from war, others are killed. That is why she asks this question.
"All colors run, none of us solid"
Everyone is everything, one can not be completely good or evil. Her point gets across by using the metaphor of color.
"Where do refugee hearts go? Broke, displaced, where they're not from, don't want to be missed, faced with absence"
The people who are refugees find it difficult to once again find a home, to find acceptance and to belong.
"Do not fear what has blown up... If you must, fear the unexploded."
I have no clue what this means, but it is intriguing. It leaves her poem open ended, to ask one self this question.
Marjane and Suheir have experienced different wars, different problems, different situations, but their point of views can be similar. Marjane finds that following others is easier as she is in Austria, but later realizes that being different (Islamic/Iranian) is completely fine. Marjane had done a couple thing she wasn't very proud of, and she felt like she ran away from the war. Though the burden of the war still weighed her down. She knew of the boys who were sent out to fight, and her friend had been harmed by the war. Marjane didn't worry for a brother or her father, but of her friends, that one in particular she hadn't seen or spoken to in years.
What is "striking" is that war every where seems to be the same. They spoke of different times and different places but they still had the same message. Children are effected, and those who are part of it can't bring themselves back.
Part II
Suheir Hammad speaks powerfully about her brothers, the wars withing countries, throughout the world, and who is behind them. They are all people like you and I. They are fathers and brothers, many of a young age. She wishes her brothers aren't hurt, she despises the discrimination which has to be faced for the color of their skin, and accent on their voice. Marjane witnessed the revolutions which came across the countries she lived in. Her family part of it, her family killed, her family hurt by their surroundings. They made her run away from this revolution, from the people who would claim to be part of the positive change, not taking blame for the young men who were killed. Revolutionaries are praised as she was younger. She grows up, and knows that ther isn't one good side. People were held in prisons
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