A New Sun Over Gaza

The sun sets over Gaza
Again, plunges behind
The city walls
ravaged burnt rancid
human flesh, of babies
children bulldozed into
minced meat, smoked
barbecued, impregnated
with pungent de-oxygenated
poisoned air..

The Muezzin calls believers
To prayers, ‘He is the One
Come, to Prayers, Come to Success’
with thousands
Years of Past glory..
The Muezzin has called for prayers
So did the Church Bells ring
always
And Yehudis
as always,
greeted ‘Shalom’

But, over decades
times changed
greedy vultures
descended upon the
peoples of Palestine
to grab, pillage and
reduce to ashes habitats
splashing‘cheap’ blood
of Palestinians
till their
flesh rotted and
and fell from bones
scavengers came to feast
devoid of mercy
and nothing else remained..

“If you prick us do we not bleed?
If you tickle us do we not laugh?
If you poison us
Do we not die?
And if you wrong us,
Shall we not revenge? ”
I pose this question
To those who batter with
War-machines
And turning this land of
Manna and honey
Into Killing fields
For their
Pleasures only

But, a new hope will emerge
As it clings on to human breast
Eternally, just as the burning sun will
Rise from the same horizon
With all its glory
With new fervour it will
rise again to resist
oppression,
against heartless
occupiers
the Zionist
aggression..



inspired by the sunset over gaza
photograph published on the internet
on 13th January,2009
Ra’ana Dilruba Yasmin
islamabad, pakistan

Ra'ana Dilruba Yasmin Ra'ana Dilruba Yasmin

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-new-sun-over-gaza/