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Killed 2003 |
GAZA GENOCIDE |
Killed 2003 |
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Let there be COEXISTENCE and within it: PALESTINE
The coming into being empowers the inherent right to coexist in the place of one’s birth. Occupation, to the contrary, is the politization of this inherent right — the degradation of ethics and the very laws that came percolated from.
Out of lack of humane understanding and approach, we have slotted life between homo sapiens and those fit for slaughter (animals) and others for extermination (pests). Occupation, attempts to declassify humanbeings into the latter category for slaughter and extermination.
It is virtually impossible to reverse the mentality that all animals are fit for slaughter and pests for extermination. We can, however, stabilize and firmly establish the mentality that all beings, regardless of faith or ethnicity, are worthy of coexistence.
This poem is dedicated to all those of non-Palestinian origin, who sacrificed life or limb so that the eyes of the international community — thus far occupied by ignorance and indifference — may finally open to visualize the legitimacy and realization of a Palestinian State.
Resistance Is the insistence Of coexistence!
No walling Or stalling Of the equitable!
Triumph is inevitable
Occupation Is the compaction Of damnation!
No wailing Or killing Of the unclaimed!
The Quartet is to be blamed
It is time to rhyme Freeze with ease And peace with release!
Time for freedom To become The awaited kingdom; Time for home For the forgotten exodus In the desert’s dust!
It is time to prime Truth with crime And guilt with verdict!
No other edict!
Coexistence Is the desistence Of inexistence!
No atoms Batons Or depleted cantons!
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Critically Injured 2003 |
" Thou shalt not kill . . . " |
Critically Injured 2009 |
