To My Israeli and Palestinian Cousins - Sally Churgel

[Larry Robinson]

To My Israeli and Palestinian Cousins
 
Love seems inadequate. 
Even Love with a capital L 
seems too small and frail to break 
centuries of revenge.
 
Yet even more woefully flawed;
flak jackets, tanks, rifles, rocks
missiles after missiles 
weeping after wailing.
 
Here at the junction of three continents
Eurasian Hoopoe birds, with their cinnamon
crowns, rest peacefully on ancient 
Jerusalem stone, to return year after year. 
 
Like the Bedouins and unlike conquering
civilizations that stayed for centuries, 
their attempts to annihilate the cousins                                      
as unsuccessful as turning lead to gold.
 
Now both peoples shout, Never Again!
Do they hear the cost of that mantra?
Never peace again? 
Love is wholly and holy, inadequate.
 
But, my dear cousins
Love is all we have.
 
 
	- Sally Churgel
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