Israel Feeds Palestine on Steady Diet of Death
Israel Feeds Palestine on Steady Diet of Death
By Genevieve Cora Fraser
The foot
slips
The stone rolls
Down revealing
Their
position
Hilltop settlers
Biblical birthrights
By
the barrel
Of a gun defend
Rights stolen
From the
sacred
People of the Holy
Land taken by force
By
the lost minds
Of a wasted
Israeli
society
Devoid
Of humanity
Obsessed
Riveted in
the culture
Of possession
Of all that once
Was
Palestine
Dispossessed
Weep for the dust
In
their mouths
Dusk to dawn
Funerals
Dust from
ruined
Homes bulldozed
Rubble from dust
To dust
ancient dust
Returned
Remnants of stones
Weep
for Palestine
In the dusk
Dim light
outlines
Cratered existence
Carved out by
Israeli
Assassination
Blasts
Targeted to
kill
Thinking adults
Doers
Who must be
undone
Children that grow
Unless stopped
By
bullets
Stopped
By checkpoints
Existence
Is
Waiting is a habit
Worn like a
shroud
In Palestine amid
The rubble the
stone
Skips along the street
Is picked like a
flower
Admired for its weight
The length it can
travel
Towards a
jeep
Tanks
Kill
Resistance
Bulldozers
bully
Gigantic treads
Push a path
Snapping
down
Walls like branches
From the Tree of
Life
Ancient yet newly sprouted
From the dead seeds
Of tomorrows sorrows
Fighting to breathe
Past the
death wish
Imposed
Implanted in the heart
Of
darkness enshrined
In Israeli hopes
To
eradicate
The people
They pretend to be
Pretenders
to the Throne
A self-glorifying
Master
Race
Busy
Erasing
All traces
From the
scene
Of their
Crime
ENDS