Poem: Marching With An IDF Soldier Against War
Pro-Peace, Pro-Iraq, Pro-Palestine, Pro-Israeli Former Enemy
2004 March NYC Rally
By Genevieve Cora Fraser
I supported him
As best
I could
The drunken
Former
IDF
American-Israeli
Soldier slobbering
Drunk all
over me
Spitting out his anguish
Between two
flag
Bearing paunchy
Middle-aged
Palestinian
marchers
Up and down the streets
Of New York town
We marched
Against the occupation
Of Iraq of
Palestine
Of America at war
With the world
We
marched for love
For acceptance for peace
As the
former IDF soldier
Wailed against a wall
Of
oppression he lived
In Israel wailed against
Israel's
Slaughter of his fiancé
Three years since her
death
A soldier too he begged her
Not to go to
Lebanon
To kill she returned
Dead their dreams
Of a
family, life, joy
Murdered by Israel
He screamed
Bellowed in counterpoint
To the rally chants he fell
The puffing Palestinian
Marchers picked him
up
Held him in their arms
Tried to comfort the
former
Enemy who would not be
Consoled
*Genevieve Cora Fraser is a poet, playwright and journalist as well as an environmental and human rights activist.