A Land Far From Yours!Palestine

Maryam Jaffar
2 min readOct 26, 2023

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Al-Aqsa- Dome Of The Rock

There is a land

far away from yours

Always shining bright, even at the night

The kind you never saw even at daytime

The land never sleeps

It all sounds so glorious

Because that is the land;

Where HEAVEN is destined to be yours

Where they see ANGELS every day

Where RED is all you see

A bright red you can only dream

You might think it’s nonsense

But it is not

When you are born one day and die the next

Heaven is yours

When you are eating peacefully at home

And the next moment you are gone;

Heaven is yours

When you stay awake because you never know

At what time a rocket will be launched

Setting everything ablaze

That’s how their nights are never dark

The land is painted red

With the innocent blood on streets

While sitting at the comfy chair I write

Not knowing anyone there will ever-

Read it

I am a hypocrite for saying my heart bleeds

As I am lying on my bed every night under the roof I own

Where no neighbor can barge in

And tell me they own it now

I am a hypocrite

So are you;

and the ones after you

And the ones before.

Because we don’t care about them

Not the way we would care for our land

Maybe it is not too late

To step up

And stop them from writing letters

Where they ask the world

To tell the generations coming forth;

About how there was once a land called Palestine;

A place that welcomed HOMELESS PEOPLE,

When the OG Fascists butchered their generations

And how they were forced

To experience an open-Air prison!

By the same people;

They once let in with open arms

For the OG Fascists with The Big Threes;

Told them it’s their PROMISED LAND!!

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