Abdellatif Laâbi, poet, Moroccan writer and translator, born in 1942 in Fez
I ATTEST
I attest that there is no human being
that the one whose heart trembles with love
for all his brothers in humanity
The one who longes
more for them than for himself
freedom, peace, dignity
one who considers Life
is even more sacred
that his beliefs and his deities
I attest that there is no human being
that he who tirelessly fights
Hatred in him and around him
The one who,
as soon as he opens his eyes in the morning,
the question arises :
What will i do today
so as not to lose my quality and my pride
to be a man ?
Abdellatif LAÂBI, 2015
Writer, Moroccan poet and translator
