THE ZIONIST
WALL
© Farouk Asvat
The Zionist Wall is a
living thing:
It brings death to the
people of Palestine
It comes with soldiers
That massacre grandfathers in the streets
It comes with bulldozers
That destroy grandmothers in their homes
The Zionist Wall is a
breathing thing:
It brings death to the
Muslims of Palestine
It comes with tanks
That blast fathers to kingdom come
It comes with white phosphorous
That burns mothers to a living hell
The Zionist Wall is a
living thing:
It brings death to the
people of Palestine
It comes with living clusters
That kill children in the fields
It comes with active uranium
That contaminates babies in their prams
The Zionist Wall is a
breathing thing:
It brings destruction to
the Christians of Palestine
It consumes orange trees and olive
branches
It slithers into crèches and clinics
It slides into homes and orchards
It destroys lives and livelihoods
The Zionist Wall is not a
dead thing:
It brings death to the
people of Palestine.
It comes with helicopter gunships
That shoot children playing in the streets
It comes with military aircrafts
That bomb mothers praying in their homes
The Zionist Wall is not a
dead thing:
It brings death to the
Jews of Israel.
It comes
with sacrificial bombers
Who blow up
buses and restaurants
It comes
with suicidal martyrs
Who
obliterate school children and rabbis
The Zionist Wall is not a
dead thing:
It brings death to the
people of Israel.
It shoots down ambulances and schools by
day
It blows up shops and hospitals by night
It comes with dreams of paradise and
virgins
It leaves behind orphans and widows
The Zionist Wall is a
weeping wall:
Those who lived and died in concentration
camps
Now create concentration camps
For the living and the dead
The Zionist Wall is a
weeping wall:
Those who died and survived a holocaust
Now create a holocaust
For the living and the dead
The Zionist Wall is a
wailing wall
For the living and the dead of Palestine
The Zionist Wall is a
wailing wall
For the living and the dead of Israel
The Zionist Wall is a
wailing wall
For the living and the dead of the world
© farouk asvat
composed: 17.01.2009 [johannesburg, south africa under new #apartheid ].
●
"I enjoyed your beautiful and heartfelt poems, especially "The Zionist Wall"."
●
Ramzy Baroud, Palestinian author
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[] acknowledgements:
The
Zionist Wall was previously published in:
The
Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (piquant publications, p`, 2006);
The
Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (amazon paperback, p`, 2014);
The
Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (kindle, p`, 2014);
https://richardfalk.org/2016/03/04/a-somewhat-anguished-open-letter-to-blog-subscribers/#comments
09.03.2016);
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[§] Books
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● Sadness In The House Of Love (novel)
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● A Celebration Of Flames (poetry)
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● This Masquerade (short stories)
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stories)*
● In The
House Of Love (novel)*
● Weapons Of Words
(comparative literature &
literary criticism)
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not an ''apartheid'' wall in ''Israel'':
''Israel'' is an oppressive, tyrannical regime
that massacres children, women and men
in an unprecedented genocide that the 'european'
countries' (america, europe, australasia) support.
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