Poem: Hamas Plots Exodus from Israeli Bondage
Hamas Plots Exodus from Israeli Bondage
By Genevieve Cora Fraser
He wore a
Western business suit
And smile as he shook
My hand
in Nablus
Abbas was about to speak
To Muslim,
Christian and Jewish
Palestinians
He hurried to the
meeting
As a member of Hamas
Proud to be
Part of
the new promise
Surrounded by jackals wearing
Israeli
uniforms armed tanks
Waited to burst back on the
scene
The Israelis held their fire
That day in Nablus
with Western
Press swarming about
No one was fooled by
the apparent
Calm the momentary cease-fire
until
Cameras were back in sound trucks
And Western
eyes closed again
To the chaos that would
soon
Reappear as night fell the calm
Before the storm
relaxed
Fears momentarily
As families counted the
blessings
From gardens they would no longer
Access
with Israeli settlers
Holding siege burning olive
bushes
Ablaze as the burning bush
Spoke to Moses of a
promised
Land milk and honey
The gall of it
all
Zionist Occupation
Out of bondage
The Aramaic
speakers
The Ancient Ones
Were promised
Palestine
and the Home
Of the Good Samaritans
Nablus' North and
South
Sacred Mountains
Cradle the memory of
Moses
The Old City now
Reverberates with the
crackle
Of gunfire snipers roam
Besieging refugee
camps
The elderly, the infirm
Children
Cower as
they rampage
Soldiers storm into apartments
Arrest the
development
Of a normal life lived
Ablaze with the
desire
To burn the Tree of Life
Of Palestinians
The
Almighty desire
For conquest
Over all the indigenous
possess
The constant journey
Out of Life into
Death's
Grip the People of Palestine
Unite behind
resistance
Hamas Hamas Hamas
Their victorious
beginning
Signals the hoped for end
Occupation's
bondage
Broken
God's messenger
Ablaze with
love
For country and for
home
ENDS