Wednesday, 7 May 2025

Palestine

 For Palestine 

Who has many voices never heard
Keep on singing
Your freedom is louder than their captivity
The seas will return to your shore.


A home may be something you own 
But it is not your bones, your flesh
That which you caress and hold and carry
Deep within, unseen by them.
Impossible to bulldoze.
A well you keep that cannot be drained or named, shamed or contained
My country lives still
                           Relentlessly defiant.

A Moment of Calm

 

My soul finds words in this silence

Unutterable perhaps
Difficult to decipher

These are quiet sounds
Formed in the absence of presence

The rhythm of breath inhaled 

The call of the bird
Giving voice to what is unspoken

These are quiet sounds
Formed in the presence of absence