Mural of a Refugee

Before you go,

Have you a minute to spare,

To hear a word on Palestine

And perhaps to help us right a wrong?

Ever since the birth of Christ

And later with the coming of Mohammed,

Christians, Jews and Moslems, believers

.....in one God,

Lived there in peaceful harmony.

For centuries it was so,

Until strangers from abroad,

Professing one thing, but underneath,

.....another,

Began buying up land and stirring up the

.....people.

Neighbors became enemies

And fought against each other,

The strangers, once thought terror's victims,

Became terror's fierce practioners.

Seeking peace at all costs, including the

.....cost of justice,

The blinded world, in solemn council, split

.....the land in two,

Tossing to one side

The right of self-determination.

What followed then perhaps you know.

Seeking to redress the wrong, our nearby

.....neighbors

Tried to help us in our cause,

And for reasons, not in their control, did not

.....succeed.

Today, there are a million of us,

Some like us, but many like my mother,

Wasting their lives in exiled misery

Waiting to go home.

But even now, to protect their gains ill-got,

As if the land was theirs and had the right,

They're threatening to disturb the Jordan's

.....course

And make the desert bloom with warriors.

And who's to stop them?

The world seems not to care, or is blinded

.....still.

That's why I'm glad you stopped

And heard the story.