Leave Gaza In Peace
5 Poems
By Ada Aharoni
Inspired by talks with Israeli Soldiers
Not Returning Home
I'm so sorry, my love,
I'm not returning home
for I can't return
home
I love you so
want to be with you so,
but somewhere there in a tank
in Gaza, under speared palm trees,
so far from you my love -
a murderous bullet hit me
in the very fallow of the center of
of my heart
where I first fell for you -
and now I am falling forever
I so want to be with you my love,
so want to hug you
my love, my life -
but cannot return home.
They have uselessly spilled
my young life, my young blood
under Gaza's blue skies -
and now I will not
just cannot
return home to you my love
Shalom my love, my life ….
A Jewish or a Palestinian Mother
You will not build a nest
dear Amir,
every night you return to me,
and your silent cries
silence my heart,
"Mother, mother, help me!"
And I cannot
I can only caress the rugged stones
over your bones,
as I used to caress your soft curls
before sleeping ...
Mozart In Khan Yunis
A moment of harmony in Khan Yunis -
We suddenly heard from one of the houses
Mozart music beautifully played -
The whole company stopped
to hear the nightingale music.
The pianist played beautifully
and the whole company stopped and
listened to the exquisite harmony
The shooting of Palestinian snipers
and treacherous explosives of suicide bombers
did not succeed to stop us -
but a sixteen year - old girl
playing Mozart music
stopped the Israeli army!
When We Will Leave Rafiah
When we will leave Rafiah
After blowing up all their arms’smuggling tunnels
And go back home -
They will not trick us anymore
They will not send their horrifying suicide bombers
To kill our children on school buses anymore.
When we will return home
We will show them
What peace really is
And means
When we will go back home
We will hug our joyful wives and children,
And we will try to forget the sadness
In the eyes of their wives and children,
We will try, we will try very hard -
But I know we will never
Forget.
I also know they will never forget.
The mutilated Israelis and Palestinians will never forget
The sorrow, the pity, and the utter uselessness of
The continuous pouring of rivers
Of young fresh blood
It is not too late – there is now a golden lining of hope
Let’s dam the senseless, pitiless rivers of blood
At once
And rush back on a swift white yacht
To the safe twinkling free banks of
Peacemaking and Reconciliation
The Lie That Exploded in Gaza
That night in Gaza, under the stars,
under the full moon in an inky sky,
the big lie suddenly exploded
with a Big Bang
in my heart and in my mind
shattering all my limbs
and all my former heroic values
The big lie that suddenly exploded
Like a whizzing shrapnel through my brain and heart
Shrieked its truth violently:
“Violence cannot stop conflicts!”
That Big Bang Lie
exploding in the depths of my heart
and my fuzzy deluded mind
forcefully brought back the deafening dynamite
exploding the old house
of an old grandmother
desperately searching for
her glasses and medicine in the rubble –
That explosive night
I suddenly saw the light.
The indefatigable Ada Aharoni heads IFLAC: The International Forum for the Literature and Culture of Peace (IFLAC). Reach her through her web site
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