“Water, water , everywhere –
but not a crocodile tear to spare”?
GAZA
• Killed: at least 34,488 people, including more than 14,500 children killed
• 8,400 women Injured: more than 77,643 people Missing: more than 8,000
•
• Occupied West Bank
• Killed: at least 491 people, including more than:
• 124 children Injured: more than 4,800
•
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Shine shine
Palestine
though an alien
bleeds
you now
brave brave
Palestine
for the spirit
leads
you now
strong strong
Palestine
the world
heeds
you now
rise rise
Palestine
your courage
feeds
you now
hail hail
Palestine
The Other
needs you
now
*
You fell
you broke
you lost it
all
but naught
did you
yield
when they
swatted
you
like so
many
flies
you still
held
the field
now they
have
lost
and you have
won
the Truth is
soon
revealed
*
Standing for
your
native rood
you are
heroes
of the hour
they yet
failed
to drive you
out
despite
their awful
power
they
the brute
invaders
and you
the Fearless
Tower
*
All they can do
is kill kill
kill
and there ends
their sorry
game
but you possess
that
iron will
that no
tyrant
can tame
*
You will go
down
in history
they will
just
go down
river to the
shining
sea
yours the
High
Renown
*
So hail hail
Palestine
your courage
tributes you
now
and rise
rise
Palestine
The Other
salutes
you now
• For ALL the innocent non-combatants slain in Palestine as a complicit world, North, South, East, and West, looked on, impassively.
[©R.Kanth 2024]
Editor’s Note: The opinions expressed here by the authors are their own, not those of LitVote.com
Professor Rajani Kanth, is Author of Coda (A Novel), A Day in the Life (Novel), Expiations (Verse), and Farewell to Modernism (Political Economy Tract).