Peace and land
Land and peace
This aborted peace process
Attempts in cities and camps, Presidents bullying and chagrined, washing hands with Jacob's water, proclaiming "I am innocent of this blood,"
Decades later the process of peace is a byword
War within and without
Factions, prisons, weapons, checkpoints
This agony of absence
over UNWRA generations, Holocast generations
Can I have peace if I don't have my land?
To have the land but no peace;
To have no peace and no land.
All we have is might
All we have is resistance
Whose land is it?
Is it the title? Is it the one who is present, or was present?
Whose dominion will last?
Kingdoms rise, nations fall.
Epochs end.
The land remains.
The land; it's not yours, it's not mine,
it belongs to Allah-Adonai.
Whose land is it, justice asks?
Mercy replies, it's for all the children.
Oh, Land, Land, Land, hear the Word of the Lord. -Jeremiah 22:29
