suicide bomber

gaze out to face Gaza
and what the blank sky offers --
an extra dose of oblivion

watch as doom rises up
from every horizon

look,
hear,
walk in fear --
live a nightmare
occupied
vilified
nullified

bullets
rain down
from the cloud
of terror
that hovers
over on the hillside

fortification swelling up
like the powerful crushing jaw
of a murderous monster storm
bearing down and snapping
the tiny, fragile bones of justice,
tearing up the soft flesh of peace
demoralizing,
and devouring will

offering peace
the olive branch
and tree
blown in the yellow wind
are ripped out by their roots
undone
cast off
charred and broken

gnarled trunks
lie deserted and dead
like writhing carcasses
twisting into the sand
still, but moving
offering peace no more

waves of growling dozers
crumple history
into tumbling rubble

the homes groan as they fall
and become the dust
that spins around
the boots of soldiers
as they march defiantly across
that desolate real estate

the blood of our brothers
cries out from the earth
where it has been spilled,
puddled and painful
after a tempest
of bullets
and bombs

and the tanks
bespeak
the awful truth
US dollars
buy this
holocaust of hate
build the walls
to steal the land
guns and shells
for the reprimand
How can we let
these injustices stand?

maybe, if we try,
a Caterpillar
can morph
into a butterfly


(click on title to see video about Gaza)