This Presidential Biden, having already thought to endorse his predecessor Donald Trump’s encouragement for Zionism’s permanent seizure of Syria’s Golan Heights? Would also now declare himself supportive for some permanent erasure of the Fourth Geneva Conventions enshrined ‘right of return’ ?
For our culture we are banished. To walk on other side
Too dark to seek redemption? Though still we have the pride
and that resolution forthright. That spirit still to fight
For Liberty, for Freedom, for the right to live a life.
That of the life within, quiet spirit and the reassuring touch
of the rock that is our birthright. That has meant so very much
With a quietness too our lands, her springs, are waiting
the return our children’s voices from this night
The attention women who from birth’s foundation
have with pot and skin come forth to draw by right.
Where now these hills today? The quiet of tea time
Those carefully tended walls, the trees and crop
and that dusty scent of grain at time of harvest
Fig, olive, orange, cheese, yogurt
And too? The watchful prayer of shepherd
in passage, attendant care of flock
At one communing with the land. A land fashioned by the hand
By an uncounted generation of our stock