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THE SECOND CRUCIFIXION
Dom Martin The Global Christian community is predominantly aware of the first crucifixion and venerates the event with unprecedented faith and fervor. However, it remains subserviently silent to the second crucifixion, occurring in the very consciousness of the first crucifixion. The face of the Palestinian child below epitomizes the second crucifixion of the Christ child insomuch as it embodies Palestine’s forsakened plight and reality. This poem is dedicated to the Children of Palestine, Afghanistan, the Balkans, Iraq, Lebanon and elsewhere — who continue to be blatantly exterminated by the cataclysmic will of the international community.
Palestinian Child injured in the 2008-2009 Israeli siege on Gaza
Before Shoah Was Noah!
Life Was an ark Of coexistence Unlike the arc Of strife And indigence!
Death Was by grace Unlike by assassination Funded by the wealth Of nations Of dubious trace!
Before politics Was ethics!
Humanity Was an island With a homeland Walled on all sides By the tides Of integrity!
Hope Was a stethoscope Between God And Good Between prophets And existential facts!
Before Christ No heist!
Palestine Had no deadline To existence No hoodlums To its vast dunums Of olives and incense!
The child roamed freely Throughout the breadth Of breath Merrily Unbridled Unblooded!
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