Let My People Go!

Let My People Go!



The bombing of Gaza
started a year ago today,
man's inhumanity to man
continues in every possibility
conceived,
give us this day
our daily bread
and forgive us our trespasses

I knew a poet who said:
I'd give up my pen for a gun
surrender the gun for a feather
let the feathers fly
where they may
and if May comes, I'll take
up my pen again

veni vidi vici
are words that bring down civilization
after civilization

rust settles down
sooner than later
ring around the rosey
and we all fall down

there are no stars when the
sky is ablaze
and vultures steal your eyes
there is no Arab and Jew
Christian, Buddhist or Hindu
when the death mask is worn
6 feet below,

and the song you would have sung
had you lived long enough is
frozen on your tongue