When My Child Asks What of Palestine?
What about the Muslims?
Israeli occupation.
What of Palestine?
My small child looks for answers,
A trade center crumbled,
A country's despair.
A boy his age in the street cursing America.
What of Palestine?
His age denies access to words like
"Geneva convention"
"terrorism supported by a Saudi exile"
He only sees a boy his age happy and our loss.
But what of Palestine?
I tell him a story of a people,
A people much like our Native people,
Who were pushed off their land,
Made to walk, leaving a trail of tears.
Our shame.
I say Palestine cries like our Indians cried,
Colonization on simple terms,
I tell him I pray for our families,
I pray for Palestine.
