SONNET OF ADAM SAMER AL-GHOUL & BASIL SULEIMAN ABU AL-WAFA
Sonnet of Adam Samer Al-Ghoul & Basil Suleiman Abu Al-Wafa
With some superiority and vindicated wrath, history here tells tale
again of blades sharpened by sands and time. Home was made when
horrified children settled in your fierce strong land, O Seren! You
once slayed enemies there upon that soil. Defended your dune
covered coastal plains where refuge was taken from the last great wars
pain of propaganda and suffocating-gas and rubbled-cities and camps
and hot-steel and bombs and landmines left to threaten every granddaughter
for a hundred years. Tell me true; do you believe yourself a protector
of peoples, on the right side of this dead sea of displaced, yet fail
see what you weakened—from Egypt across to Jordan—as everyone flees
abandons their fathers flags now shredded like bonds and bodies, of
brothers, sisters, once known as lover and friend and neighbor. You spit
blood, turns the sea red, deep as banners from the nazi regimes. O!
Pages will be written by the limbless and blind sons & daughters of your reign.
-2024, Janurary 26th, Friday—After an American work day