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Walls

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Allah is on both sides of the Wall

El Shaddai is on both sides of both Walls

God is on all sides of all walls


Abraham Ibrahim you are brothers

Tel Aviv Ramallah you are sisters


The world is frightened.

You could be the spark

that starts the fire

that kills us all.


For the sake of your children, compromise

to love your neighbour, compromise

to obey your God, compromise

to save the world, compromise


To rediscover your own humanity


compromise.


The walls referred to in the second line are the Barrier being built around the West Bank by Israel and the Western or 'Wailing' Wall in Jerusalem, Judaism's holiest site, on the other side of which is Haram al-Sharif (The Temple Mount) containing the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque – Islam's third holiest site.

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Nichola Burrows

Tue 27th Oct 2009 09:29

True Dave, religion is the cause of so much conflict.

Frightening that something that is historically and ideologically a form of control and preaches self-control to followers, in whatever form it takes for them, should be so out of control.

Really thoughtprovoking piece.x

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Cynthia Buell Thomas

Sun 25th Oct 2009 17:03

It is a well written poem.
I hesitate to applaud all the content. I think your valid observations could have eliminated 'God is on all sides of all walls' and stopped with '...that kills us all' to pick up only 'to save the world, compromise'. For myself, the poem comes dangerously close to proselytizing, a stance that I don't think will assist matters anywhere in the Middle East.

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Isobel

Sat 24th Oct 2009 10:23

I think there are a good many walls built in other places too. Would that your poem could reach the ears that need to hear it and that it could be understood.

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