Gaza is Bleeding: Suffer Little children, Suffer
Written by Rula Zein-Iddin
So much pain, so much anguish,
How can we just sit here and watch?
A child’s brains are blown away, literally no more head,
Yet we sit here calmly watching them bury the dead
My heart is aching with the futility of it all,
Who killed who, why, when & for what – if anything at all
Never ending circles of violence and conspiracy theories emerge,
But the bitter truth is that the oppressed remain submerged
Continuously knocked down every time they raise their heads
For how long can they continue rising from the dead?
Endless suffering, hunger, fear and dread
Do you wonder how they can ever go to bed?
What nightmares these poor children must suffer
Are they dreaming or are these even more bitter winds they must buffer?
We managed to lose our humanity along the way,
Whilst our neighbours’ lay bleeding come what may
With talk of “change” through Obama still in the air ,
The bombs shake the earth & add to the despair
Who is listening to the cries of pain? Who is heeding this mania?
No one. The Global Credit Crunch, Madoff & Madonna’s divorce captivate the media
So here we are, left with candle light vigils and donations
How proud are we to be part of this world of inhuman nations?
Salam
Happy new year
Continuously knocked down every time they raise their heads
For how long can they continue rising from the dead?
Painfully beautiful. Thank you…
Thank-you Pak & Ola.
All we can do now is pray.
Its so sad and painful to try and understand all what s happening- Israelis want revenge over what happened in Lebanon- trying to erase the shame – trying to prove to the world that what happened in 2996 is the exception and they can still considered the strongest army in the world-it s funny the strongest army in the world exercising their might against helpless women and children in Gaza -Oh i 4got the rockets hamas rockets which is trigger of all this but how many Israelis are killed and how many palestinians just think w me and decide who is the aggressor and who is the victim
Hey great poem Rula… really portrays the humanitarian for the people of Gaza…
Hey Suzy I believe that some of the media is kinda biased. Even the CNN news channel released that it was Israel who broke the ceasefire first. Enough fighting whose fault it is. In addition after the UN declaration for ceasefire. You should read Nicholas Kristoff column in the NYT link
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/opinion/08kristof.html
When the war casualties on the Israeli side are soldiers (13 soldiers so far NO CIVILIANS and 120 wounded ) and on the Palestinian side (802 dead of which more than half are civilian, YES civilian as infants, children, women, reporters, medics???? AND 3300 wounded) LET the stats speak for themselves.
Do not say that say that civilians are being used as shields by Hamas, because even John Ging the executive manger of the ENRWA in Gaza Stated that there were no militants in that school. Evidence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Teqfdix4jTA
It is in fact heart-wrenching that this situation is still ongoing.
It painful to see TV interviews of children having to speak with such depth of emotion on ‘adult’ matters like injustice.
They have been robbed of any modicum of normalcy. Raped of their very childhood & right to innocence.
Generations to come will only know talk of hate & revenge.
Having said that….if you were held siege & bombed for 20 days straight with no food, medicine, shelter or hope of escape….surrounded by rotting corpses of your family & maimed bodies – how deeply would your psychological scars run?
Our children are talented. They have dreams & aspirations like the children of any other nation. More so they have a right to be free.
What will it take for our eyes to ‘see’ what is being done to them in the name of politics.
The cost of these barbaric actions will reverberate in the psyche of generations to come.
But then again, perhaps that was the intention all along.
Rula, this is beautiful!
Prayers Prayers Prayers PLLLLLEASE for the children in Gaza in Palestine and in the refugee camps… prayers and God Bless to ALL honorable and resistant Palestinians everywhere.
i really like it .It describes what is really happening in gaza.