A Cry from the Soil to India and Pakistan O neighbors carved from the same ancestral land,Why must your hearts be ruled by a sword in hand?Once you sang in harmony beneath monsoon skies,Now only sirens answer the children’s cries. Do the fields not grow on both sides the same?Must you always stoke this poisonous […]
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(For Reem, Tarek, and the Children of Gaza) I kissed her,but she wouldn’t wake up,her tiny hand still warm in mine,a doll, a dream,a tangerine untouched by time. Through broken stone and twisted steel,through the ashes of a shattered dream,I searched for voices,for laughter,for life,but silence was all that screamed. There, among the wreckage,a doll […]
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In the land where olive trees once stood tall, A tale unfolds, a prayer to enthrall. Pray for Palestine, where hearts bear the weight, Of a history marked by sorrow and fate. Amidst the echoes of Adhan’s call, In the land of prophets, where empires fall, Pray for the children with innocence bright, For […]
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By the heart of a homeland unheard, yet unbroken I am the voice that echoes still,From hills of Hebron, Gaza’s will,From olive trees and jasmine bloom,To refugee camps soaked in gloom. I am the soil beneath your feet,So rich, so red, yet incomplete.Each grain a story, each breath a prayer,Of a people shackled, yet […]
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