Poem: The Definition Of Occupation
The Definition Of Occupation
Occupied, terrorized,
genocide
while the whole world is hypnotized,
Sixty
years, incessant tears
no day passes by without countless
fears
For our lives, our wives, our children cry
yet
the world turns away, and our spirits die.
...
For my
land, I do stand
but I remain hopeless without a helping
hand,
Oppression, suppression, depression
of every
aspect of my life, you've taken possession,
Our weapons
are stones, to protect our homes
but your bulldozers win
and terror roams,
Yours are tanks, helicopters, and
military jeeps
to kill the young man, as his mother
weeps,
You control our electricity, you control our
seas
you control our streets, and uproot our trees,
You
close our schools, our children can't learn
you deny the
refugees their right to return,
Suffering orphans, under
your persecution
when they rise up, they face
execution,
Families are separated, and farmers (merely)
recall
the land they lost by your Apartheid
Wall,
Through your diplomacy and your foreign relations
/
you attempt to justify and give credence to your
occupation,
Palestine is my land, and I won't let you
take it
and while you put the world to sleep, I try to
wake it.
- Abdelnasser Rashid
April
15, 2006
11th Grade
student
PALESTINE