My love letter to Beirut | mikasounds
And then, suddenly, at 6.10pm on Tuesday, a tragic grey cloud rose up from your port, mowing down your exhausted people. The thick orange smoke drowned the skies of Beirut and replaced the distant memory, so often recounted by my mother, of the yellow light which bathed our fourth floor, sea-facing apartment on the corniche. I cannot but think of these two explosions as a symbol of a system which is shattering.
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