West Bank

The Knotted Gun
Symbol of non-violence

What we have here

Is failure to communicate.

The outcome is Gaza's atmosphere

Is fed on Israeli infernal plate

And Tel Aviv is cooked raw

As Hamas Militants retaliate.

But how does anyone at all

Fall in love with cruel war

And another has a knack

For swimming in blood and gore?

Two cannot bulldoze a path

To peace and mutual consent

If their quest is tucked in a past

Rooted in some vague conquest.

The fight for land's

As old as the origin of clans.

We know 'bout Abraham

And his journey to Canaan

We heard 'bout his grandson Israel

Who birthed the 12 tribes of Israel

And all the way down to the Romans

Who razed down the temple in Jerusalem

And dragged into exile Jewish man and woman,

Then there was Ataturk Ottoman

And they raised the Al Aqsa

Where the Jewish temple did stand,

Along came Hitler,

The evil German Führer

Who made the Jews

Scamper for the only home they knew.

Switch to the modern day

And the very soil spews hate.

It's difficult

To forget a Holocaust

If someone

Wants your land at all cost.

Still we must remember

In this world we're all brothers

Y'all can share a border

And never be a bother

To one and another.

Y'all can knot a revolver

And have each other's shoulder.

You can make two states

And have sovereignty of your estates.

How long?

Long enough

To get off each other's case

And learn to share a space.

Akpan