Israel Owns the Earth - Palestine Owns the Moon
Israel Owns the Earth - Palestine Owns the Moon
By Genevieve Cora Fraser
Tanks
rumbled
Through narrow
Sandy alleyways
As scores of
armored
Carriers, tanks
And bulldozers
Stood by
Perched
Like vultures
Assembled
Along
northern
And eastern borders
Of Gaza's
cramped
Refugee camp
Confines created
From the
remnants
Of Al Nakba massacres
And the Six Day
War
As Israeli fighter jets
And helicopter
gunships
Flew in formation
To attack
The most
densely
Populated place
On God's
Sacred
Earth
There Mighty Israel
Stood its ground
To
slaughter Innocents
Blasting tank shells
At refugee
children
Leaving school
Defenseless in
death
Israel's Days of Reckoning
Intent on
wrecking
Lives and homes and heritage
Prepared to
cut
A surgical swath
Across the land
To lay
waste
In retaliation
For Palestinian
Rockets shot
Past the far side
Of the Moon
Three Israelis
dead
Versus 300 Palestinians
Slaughtered
In the
months before
Now crammed
Into mourning tents
Fractured
Bodies lay stiffening
Shrouded in black
Smoke from tires
Set ablaze to camouflage
Resistance rising
In the gathering storm
Black
flags flutter
To Koranic verse
Arab nationalistic
music
Blares resistance
Under murky skies
Homemade landmines
Hand grenades
And confiscated
rifles
Hurl resistance
At the Billion
Dollar
Israeli Offensive
Determined to break
Resistance
Face to face
With the Face of
starvation
Disease and dehydration
Of a prosperous
People
Laid to waste
Proud but imprisoned
In the
twisted rubble
Of Israel's creation
That frames
The
red glow
Of a Crescent Moon
Rising from the
sea
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