I revised it. Heres the new one:
LET MY PEOPLE STAY
There is a place
on the Mediteranean
where I learned to walk, run and ride
where I experienced love, loss and life
Here I was born, and here I will die,
it will always be my home
I remember vividly the salty breeze from the sea
and swimming in the ocean after school
and the golden yellow sun
relflecting off its crystaline waters
Here I celebrated holidays
and stumbled home on purim
had my first kiss in the orchards
with the one that got away
Here I buried my older brother
and when I did
Everyone tore their shirts with me*
I wanted to start a family here
but I can't anymore
soon my home of 20 years
will be nothing but a pile of rubble
thanks to "Steamroller Sharon"
Now it goes to our enemies
the Meuzzin calls
God is great! Victory to HAMAS!
As people pack their belongings
tears contorting their faces in pain
The soldiers come, but not to kill our enemies
but to give them land, our land!
And orange clad mass
yelling and screaming
YEHUDI LO MIGARESH YEHUDI
A JEW DOESNT EXPEL A JEW!
Converge on the gates to meet them
the older people lift up their sleeves
revealing numbers
while youth scream insults
Soldiers break up the mob
make arrests
WE ARENT TERRORISTS!
At the synogogue we make our own masada
orange clad men cry to God
"Why have you forsaken us?"
I emulate Moses, screaming
LET MY PEOPLE STAY
Some soldiers drag us
kicking and screaming out
others cry and tear their uniforms*
tears streaking their strong, proud faces
The women scream
"This is our home! We have nowhere else!"
As they are led away from their homes
weeping histerically, tugging their hair
But its all for naught
the greenhouses stand empty
the homes are now abandoned
temples, schools, and shops have
not a soul in sight
We have been cleared out
for a peace that will never come
And what will become of
Our beautiful temple, where I was bar-mitzvahed?
the fields I harvested all my life?
the greenhouses, full of plants, I helped to build
with my own two hands?
And what of our huge library and our great schools?
What will become of them?
We don't know, and neither do they
and nobody but us cares about
what will become of
My beloved Gush Katif
*tearing of clothing is used as a sign of mourning in the Jewish faith.
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