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The crime of the Palestinian child

a poem on Palestine

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Ahmad Ibsais
Apr 07, 2024
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What was the crime of the Palestinian child?

What warranted their death?

Why did their parents’ tears

And the child’s blood, water the soil?

Why do you kill

when the air you breathe is ours

the clouds in the sky, ours?

Why do you imprison us in our country

and punish us for living

When you are the fire that burns the land?

That which we will eventually return and…

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