I can’t sleep anymore

May 11, 2021, 3:14 AM

Palestine

I can’t sleep anymore … can’t drop it all from

Conscious form, roam … freely, dream while

The word is hurled… across the world,

My brothers, robbed… gunned and gored!

Can’t wash my hands… tainted, blood and sin

Wat’r rinses not sins… Of a G-dless Qawm

As for the blood… I’ll have to wait

Washing means nought… as, red, it pours!

We are created weak… our Lord is Strong

So rather than sleep my hands I raise

Asking The Merciful… for His Peace, I cry

All-Hearing, I implore… don’t let my people die!

I’ll sacrifice my sleep… both day and night

To stand on guard for Palestine!

I’ve pledged my heart… and now my tongue

I can only pray … dream: action, respite.

Thus I dream, during … sleepless nights!