Before I Close The Day

" rather die fighting than live in vain "

The Way You Look at Them

Poems for Gaza
Gaza Poetry
Poems of the NAKBA: the Holocaust of the Children of Palestine

I, too, have a dream ...
that one day they will see me as I am:
a small child, lonely and afraid,
staring down the barrels of their big bazookas,
knowing I did nothing
to deserve their hatred.
―The Child Poets of Gaza