Future Consequences
Future Consequences
From the bombed out buildings and slaughter of Gaza,
there will emerge a generation of people scarred by war.
Countless thousands of young people today,
have lost limbs, their sight and any hope of a personal future.
They lie in makeshift beds bandaged,
because they are disfigured and blind.
They have no future which we have enjoyed,
simply because they belonged to a different religion and culture.
In twenty years time they will be young men and women,
disabled, intelligent and bright but handicapped.
Are we to think they will forget the cause of their misfortune?
The violence of today has sown the seeds of the future,
a new resistence movement is in the making.
We have allowed this tragedy to happen,
and we will bear the responsibilty which will ensue.
The sins of the fathers will be upon us.
What we have sown we shall reap,
especially as we did nothing but abstain.
keith jeffries
Fri 15th Dec 2023 22:43
Thank you to Telboy, Greg and Stephen G for your reading and commenting of this poem. I yearn for peace but it must come with justice. I am am not anti anyone. As a gay man I have endured sufficient prejudice in my life to abhor intolerance and hatred. Justice, peace and reconciliation must prevail. I endeavour to speak the truth based on personnal experience. I have visited Palestine five times in my life and have seen the IDF abuse people in a manner which is abhorent. The present Israeli Government is fascist. It claims to be a democracy, the only one in the Middle East, but there is not one man one vote. Only Jews can vote. So much for democracy.
I could go on but do not wish to protract this debate. A massive injustice is being perpretrated. Can any of us look into the eyes of wounded children and say they were the victims of anti semetism? What is now taking place will have a serious adverse affect on Jews and Palestinians alike. The future awaits the consequences of this tribulation.
Thank you again,
Keith