If I Must Die By Professor Rifaat Al-Ar'eer2 If I must die you must live to sell my things to buy a piece of cloth and some strings (make it white with a long tail) so that a child somewhere in Gaza while looking heaven in the eye awaiting his dad who left in a blazeand bid no-one farewell not even to his flesh not even to himselfsee my kite, the kite you made, flying up above and thinks for a moment an angel is there bringing back love If I must die let it bring hope let it be a tale 2 The Palestinian poet Professor Rifaat Al-Ar'eer - who did his doctorate at University Putra Malaysia published this poem shortly before he was killed in Gaza in December 2023. 11