Gaza

Al Fakhura

Sons and daughters

Of the Nazi Holocaust

Whose songs and poetry

Drip oceans of grieving tears

For the lost ones

Those grainy photographs

Of skeletal people

And mountains of shoes

Why do you, of all nations

Choose to wade through Gaza

Like Godzilla

Killing children

Killing dreams

With your American tanks? -

Your "weapons of mass destruction"

Covering our ears,

We sheltered in the school

At Al Fakhura

Listening to the sounds of genocide -

Screaming sirens

On the Adwan road

Your shells pounding

Like hell's drumbeat

My sisters sobbing in fear.

We called to the world

But nobody listened

Huddled together

As we were

Like trapped animals

Before

A sacrificial slaughter.

Old Father Israel

You have brought

The wood and the fire

But where is the lamb?

Where is your mercy?

Where is the world?

by Yorkshire Pudding - Jan 6th 2009