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--- On Sun, 18/1/09, saikat mondal <saikatmondal_2004@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: saikat mondal <saikatmondal_2004@yahoo.com>
Subject: poem
To: friends.for.peace@btinternet.com
Date: Sunday, 18 January, 2009, 11:16 AM
Dear Mandel & Carol,
Good morning to you on this Sunday.
A friend has written very recently a poem
about the horror and carnage
ie going on in Palestine esp the killing
of innocent children.
If you like the poem please feel free
to put the poem on the blog.
I hope you are both doing well. Hoping to hear from you soon. Saikat.
The Poem: How to destroy a people
First of all, teach your own children,
with their mothers milk,
with the songs that you sing to them at night,
that they are entitled,that the land
has always been theirs.
Over and over again, until the other people
who share this land
are made almost invisible,
so that they become mere shadows
to be brushed out of the way of your sun.
Don't show your children the maps
which shows that other land subsumed,
gradually vanishing from year to year.
Justify what you do with the profound suffering
that your people endured;
Let that blind and deafen you to the
suffering of others.
Trap them into an airless corridor of land,
deny them access to their water sources,
tell your selves that you're entitled
to all their resources.
Destroy their olive groves,deny them the choice
of their own leaders.
Build up an army that leeches upon the hearts
of all your men;
create over and over again an enemy to throw
your fears upon.
Then when your enemies young men
break out of the anguish
that defines their days,
unleash your armies, send your obliterating bombs
that we finance, into the schools,the hospitals,
the playgrounds;
And then allow yourselves to weep
and send up prayers for the maimed
and murdered children that lie beside their
lifeless mothers, traumatized and dazed.
Israel, would you rather bring down the world,
than face up to the reality
of what you are doing to your own humanity?
Heartssong 8th Jan 2009
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