Annexation Day Sonnet

A poetic affirmation against Annexation.

 

To have you close is to suffocate you

With my own hands; with my own guns. Today

I rise early to annex you, take you

Away from them, but you cry silently.

 

Why? Why do you cry? I’m your true lover 

You say I’m violent, this is not true,

I just want to have you as my shelter,

Regardless of your history or view. 

 

“Listen to me, for the land has spoken 

I’m the master of my owns skies and fields

along the Jordan river, I’ve risen.

 

I am not up for grabs nor to be given

I am the native, generous lands

That will remain here Palestinian.”