Calamities Make Celebrities
By Freeyad Ibrahim
The celebrity Gibran Khalil
was heavily afflicted with calamities:
His sister died of tuberculosis(TB.)
At the age of 14 his brother died of the same disease
His mother died of cancer.
He himself had developed TB too.
As he wrote of himself in his celebrity book (The Prophet) :
(Out of suffering, have emerged the strongest souls, the most massive characters are seared with scars.)
Elvis Presley was deeply affected by his (The Prophet) .
And one of his most notable lines of his poetry made song by the Beatles.
It reads:
(Half what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you.)
Really Calamities Make Celebrities.
Freeyad Hugo
(Freeyad Ibrahim: writer, poet, translator, political analyst, essayist, & novelist)
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem