For your perusal, Palestine

 By: Safdar Bhatti

 My very heart bleeds for you
 Your forlorn cries oppress
 My brimming breast to break
 Into dirge, a mournful dirge,
 
 
 Oh! the cruelty,
 Imposed on beings
 by their own kind
 In the sacred land
 All hold holy,
 
 
 Which religion teaches sacrilege?
 Bloodshed, cruelty, disorder?
 Which religion teaches hatred?
 Greed and imperial oppression?
 
 
 Then why all this hiss
 Of the Serpent bent
 To turn the vein of
 Humanity blue
 
 
 Peace, the soul of society,
 Let it flourish the world around
 Terrified angels be consoled
 With the treat of brotherly love.