Poem - 'I had a dream' by Palestinian Lamar Safi Artwork (ai) by Palestinian artist Abdelrahim Farajallah I’m 18 and I had a dream that houses bloomed with love not blood. I had a dream that people didn’t have to die to be believed. They spoke and they were heard. I had a dream that humanity was more than a mask to put on when you like or take off when you don’t. I had a dream that silence wasn’t the sound of fear but the calm of a sleeping child, a child who dreams of playdates with joking, laughing friends. I had a dream of a world where bread is easier to reach than death, where shelter is not living in a tent, trying to survive. Where borders don’t cage us in; we can travel the world. And I had a dream that I lived to see that dream with my own eyes. Lamar Safi is a young Palestinian student, studying her final year from a displacement camp & hoping to become a lawyer so that she can advocate for her rights as a Palestinian