WHAT HURTS THE MOST?
When you tell someone you don't feel good
still they leave you in that statehood
that moment made me realize I was in falsehood
because being too good is not so good.
When the one you love never acknowledges your pain
that moment makes you feels like you are nothing but a vain
the day when the ground under your feet slipped
cause people do change and words do get flipped.
........AMORE..........
Salman Rushdie, advocate of Palestinian statehood for forty years
Now publicly acknowledges what he greatly fears
That 'Palestine' would be run by Hamas, and be a client state of Iran ~
Rushdie asks, Is that what progressives pin their fond hopes on
Meghalaya! How I bethink thee
To groweth and developeth 'longside thy company;
Thy past gl'rious days we're heavily chain'd
By the f'reign'rs, putting thee in pain,
Thy wealth and happiness we're taken hence
Putting thy people in w'rries'
Years and years has't gone by,
But thee madeth sloweth developeth;
At lasteth thee gain a did bite of freedom
And yet not fully regain'd
I bethink thee did get thy full freedom:
Only aft'r thee get thy owneth state;
Till anon thou art developing
And celebrating thy 51st anniv'rsary of statehood.
Seriousness leads to statehood
Eventually it does
Fun maintains anarchic mood
A peaceful little buzz
It helps the plants to grow
It colours up the day
It makes me want to go
Just every which way
I’m living on the fun side
In hiding from aggressiveness
Through time and space I gently glide
Away from seriousness
I know it stalks me anyway
To occupy my time
With suffering about what may
Occur like senseless crime
I can be judged, despised and banned
But fun’s the only thing
That never fails me in this land
Of which no bird would sing
All the calamities I’ve known
All troubles deadly heap
Can’t shatter love, which I had sown
And fun is what I reap.
Over a hundred years of miracles
dating back well before statehood
Pioneers who made the desert bloom
Though no one thought they could
Fighting off constant terror attacks
plows in one hand, rifles in the other
Working eighteen hours a day, six days a week
One for all and all for one, everyone a brother
Rising from the ashes of the Nazi holocaust
six million maimed, tortured, killed
Three short years later, declared a state
that only they and God willed
650,000 Jews, half of them new refugees
armed with hammers, saws, and brooms
fought off the attacks of Egypt, Syria, Jordan
Lebanon, Iraq, and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem
All while taking in 875,000 Jewish refugees from Arab lands
resettling them in threadbare quarters
Today, boasting a world-class economy and over 9 million people
Israel is the world's face of hope, her story never equaled
Real life
We clamour to be heard for our space which invariably
will intrude on others’ space which we dismiss in a torrent of abuse
we will not listen to voices of reasonableness.
We say they are voices of traitors and bitterly want them silenced.
More and more people demand statehood even if it is within the borders
of the country they already live in; they will not assimilate.
Accept other cultures which are dismissed as inferior to their ideal.
Smaller and smaller allotments of land declaring independence
Isolating their religious culture from interference and using
violence against any seeking sanctuary.
Russia and Ukraine fight a turf war, as do the USA and China demand
fidelity to their culture; there is only one veracity in the one manuscript
written by sages who had nothing new to offer other than hatred
against those that speak in a foreign tongue and preach understanding
the tragedy of 1948
Israel declared statehood the west was happy
the Jews had suffered much and deserved a state
the fact that 700 thousand Palestinians lost
their homeland was overlooked.
We were all pro- Israel back then and thought
the region would usher in peace and prosperity.
It was not to be.
Instead, we see that the land of promise has
turned violent wanting all of Palestine and part of Syria
and Jordan too, they appear unstoppable.
The only group holding them back a little is the Hezbollah
who we call a terrorist, but they are a bulwark
the brutal regime in Israel who has nothing to offer but
a war against anyone opposing their quest for total power.
But the Palestinians are not forgotten the scale fell
from our eyes, we see what is happening.
Israel as a state should be boycotted, we in the west
should treat the country as an abomination it is.
By curtailing Israel, we will, in the long run, help its survival.
Force it back to the agreed borders, declare Palestine
a sovereign state, and send NATO troops to secure the perimeter
of Palestine and give financial help to her malign people.
Theodore Herzl's, "If you will it's no dream"
Lord Balfour's declaration gave it more steam
Hebron's Massacre and Arab Riots
White Paper's Rejection and Hitler's 'Zeig-Heil-It'
Nothing deterred us, no matter how extreme.
The War of Liberation in 1948
The Sinai Campaign -- 1956 was the date
The Six Day War in 1967: "The Temple Mount is Ours!"
The Yom Kippur War in '73 -- our conscience jarred.
Terrorism's ascent all through the years
The Munich Olympics brought us to tears
George Habash and his ilk, criminal masterminds
Sadam Hussein and Arafat, two of a kind
Disappointments galore:
Yamit, Oslo, Gush Katif, Gaza, and so many more--
To list them all's a thankless chore--
Hopes for peace dashed on each and every shore.
Yet in spite of it all, Israel stands tall
Her spirit strong, unwavering
Wrapped in a prayer shawl:
In spite of it all
Israel stands tall
A Beacon of Hope
Shalom to One and All
Congratulations to the People of Israel on Her 70th Year of Statehood
in the Modern Era
Israel Independence Day
April 19, 2018
Started from King Macedon
Dividing and conquering people
Come Julius Caesar and Napoleon Bonaparte
The tactic survived today
They created of nations from the states.
Sulu archipelago has been divided
Nationhood superseded statehood
The statehood gone forever
The imagined nation comes to emerge
Made the archipelago comes to worst.
They claim to own a nation
While the name in the basic law is foul
The name comes during colonization
They have their own those times
Cannot they use their own name?
KK-210615
These two words are universally misunderstood
By all human beings irrespective of their statehood
Though outwardly they appear to be analogous
They connote a deep meaning that is not obvious
But to the ignorant many, it may sound ridiculous.
A vast majority of us surely lead life conventional
Immersed in our pursuit of bread and better, usual
In search of a safe roof for our family, congenial
That makes our living hassle-free and comfortable
But this is but a routine pursuit that is not admirable.
We sweat for earning more to enjoy a life tranquil
Thus lead our lives in ignorance utterly disgraceful
When we live for ourselves, it amounts to ‘existing’
And when we live for the humanity, it is called ‘living’
And the true purpose of man is to live and not to exist.
I was told who to fear
And believed every invasion
My chains have been broken
Released, the Raven flies to freedom
I've woken from my dream
Naked to all who seek justice
A mortal prognosis
Missing in the sewers of statehood
Brought to life by
Teargas in the streets
Celebrated by silver anemones
Luminescent of ginger blossoms
Gaslights reflect a feast
Forgotten before time began
Before
.........Time began
LETTER TO THE TAXMAN
We have to give too much in tax payment.
I suppose you don’t find it funny but I meant
Taxes in Texas seems like a double entendre,
Or suppose I signed myself the Nevada Evader.
Everybody’s in trouble because of tax and you.
IOWA may soon become known as IOU,
Missouri may become the OWE ME state.
When DC reaches for a statehood date
It’s nickname should be PAY ME.
Now, I know that nothing comes free
But have patience with me please:
I want to pay you, but it don’t grow on trees.
My savings box contains nix-to-the-max.
Now, maybe a sly fox could fix his return with a fax,
Or put a hex on your lox, with his bad behavior lax,
But I simply send you no money, and I want pax.
Please allow me deductions for my dress-code mix -
Though wearing a tux might vex the collector of tax,
I might be simply seem a figure of wax.
P.S. I like sex wearing six sox while playing the sax.