He sits in the heaps of rubble and dirt,
Watching the scene unfold in his mind’s eye -
Each time feeling the fear, pain and the hurt.
His throat tightens, and he tries not to cry.
Fatmah Al-Qadfan is an aspiring Kuwaiti writer who was born in 1986. As a diplomat’s daughter, she grew up in Saudi Arabia and Oman. She moved back to Kuwait in 2004 to study at the American University of Kuwait, where she is currently double-majoring in English Literature and Anthropology.