Palestine

Palestine:
The land of Zaatar, Zaytoon
and Lime
 
Palestine:
The land of progressive and loving people
 at her core.
 
The British Empire promised the rocky terrain
(From which the Empire yielded no fruit
 Nor money!)
 
 To displaced people:  The Jews;
 
The Jews called her
The promised land:
The land promised to them.
For at the heart of her is Jerusalem:
The town holy to both Mohamedians
And the Jews:
the loving cousins they were once.
 
 
Palestine:
Became a country of division, feuds!
A country of Bloodsheds
The country of bitter tears shed.
 
Palestine:
The land of people confined in unsanitary camps
Surviving on the margins: 
Their minds becoming unsound;
Slowly !
 Day by day!
Like a blood tap turning into a blood sea.
 
Palestine:
The land of diseases, 
The land of infant deaths
In sea of numbers
The land of famished folks,
The land of murky waters and no hopes.
 
Palestine:
 Where the bitter seed of hopelessness
Is sown;
Turning into a thorny tree;
Bearing blood fruits!
 
Palestine:
The land of forgotten people,
The land of  bitter feuds !
 
Palestine :
The land of peoples’ pleas
Unheard,  unseen!
 
Palestine:
The land of peoples’ suffering
Unregistered in our collective psyches