A poem for Christmas 2008
Author's comment, Tuesday 30th December 2008
Strange and terrible that
my sonnet has turned out to be prophetic. Israel is probably using the American
political interim to stage its slaughter in Gaza, but it was always on the
cards. Israel is determined to dominate
the whole area and wipe out the Palestinians, whom they regard as an inferior
race, if human at all. Their rants against Hamas are totally unjustified. Hamas is democratically elected, and is
defending land illegally occupied and starved of all the essentials necessary to
life. Many in Gaza have been for months
reduced to eating grass, because Israel has not let any food supplies in. You can’t imagine how terrible things
are.
F.C.
Pity like a naked newborn babe . . .
What of that pity born on Christmas day?
Do we still know its meaning? Empathy
With suffering in the unholy land -
Murder, rapine, violence, and crime,
Desecration by the tyrant we
Support: whose guile and lies we understand
Because it costs no courage, effort, time.
As for our Gospel? What the papers say.
Our Envoy and our Foreign Minister
Prefer the tyrant's temple to the manger:
Eyeless in Gaza -nothing sinister
In wilful blindness if at risk of danger.
Open your eyes and see. Restore this birth
To its real truth: justice and peace on earth.
Felicity Currie
Before Christmas, 2008
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