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The Center for Political and Development Studies (CPDS) organised a contest a year ago on Prisoners and Nakba and recieved these submissions. […] They are sent to Gaza.scoop.ps exclusively

Yousef Aljamal, CPDS.
Gaza

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Poems:

I shall Return
I’m not a piece of shit
I’m a Palestinian, ready to hit
I’m also proud of it
For all your weaponry and jet
I still can fight and set
You fear me; you must admit
You here are no fit
60 years and I never quit
Defending my land and district
And some day I shall return to it

Mohammed S. AlNadi

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We Shall Return

In the name of Allah Most Gracious Most Merciful
I am Wael – you thought you took my life
I should have forgotten the seagulls of our havens
I was expected to be erased from memories
I have been kept silenced behind your bars
Since December 12 of Nineteen eighty-nine
I know that I will be free again soon
I am Palestine

In the name of Allah Most Gracious Most Merciful
I am Gaza – you hoped to extinguish my life
Yet I firmly stand on the shores of the sea
I feel the waves kissing my sisters my rivals my lovers
´Asqalan Jaffa ´Akka Sur Saida Beirut
I had belonged to them long before you came
I am here to resist and I am here to remain
I am Palestine

In the name of Allah Most Gracious Most Merciful
I am Jihad – you want to seize my life
I am seventeen and my Struggle scares you so much
I was forced to admit a crime that was not mine
I was told to forget the direction of the qibla
I am in your prison yet I am free
I will never confess that my land is yours
I am Palestine

In the name of Allah Most Gracious Most Merciful
I am al-Quds – you have murdered to take my life
I am the Flower of the cities
Morning and evening my adhaan trembles and my choirs sing
I know the paths that lead to Jabal al-Sheikh my protector
I can see my refugees stumble and whine
How foolish are you to believe that you can defeat me
I am Palestine

In the name of Allah Most Gracious Most Merciful
I am Christine - you believed you took my life
I was fifteen and my Faith scared you so much
I am alive even if you wished to deny my existence
Jesus was Palestinian him I have followed in everything
I was supposed to be nailed on your cross of forgetfulness
Yet my heart still beats in my people I am alive
I am Palestine

In the name of Allah Most Gracious Most Merciful
I am Sana´a – you judged to take my life
I was told to put aside the crimson veil of blood
Yet I keep the key to my freedom I am alive
In all generations I will be remembered
I was ordered to forget in 31 years and three lifetimes
It is just your wish and I deny your fine
I am Palestine

In the name of Allah Most Gracious Most Merciful
I am Deir Yassin – you came to end my life
I can clearly hear my dead weeping until this day
I am the Olive Tree I am the Sand I am the Land
I was told to disappear from history that was your dream
Yet I am among the living in the hearts of my offspring
In the East in the West in the North in the South
I will never stop hunting you
I am Palestine

I am rising from the ashes of your fire again and again like a Phoenix liberated

Author: Barbora Weberova

ENDS

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