“Time, to whom do you belong?”: An awakening Poem by Somoy Shafi for Gaza and Palestine
Time, to whom do you belong?
East, you belong to them
North, you belong to them
West, you belong to those Mediterranean guests
Southeast or South, about your standing I doubt
Time, to whom do you belong?
To whom do you belong?
The sky isn’t ours
Moonlight is here very miser
Plenty is our opposite party
Woe is our only wealth
The air was never in our favor
With blood and bones, we are still human
Apart from this, you can call us debris
We are havocs; we are chaos
With our wreckage, annihilation forms
Through our bloodshed, deserts find fountains
With the heap of our dead bodies, brutality builds mountains
Our skeletons are as smooth as strong
Time, to whom do you belong?
To whom do you belong?
The taste of sovereignty and map we never had
A piece of life
Here it is so cheap and mostly free
Yet to exist we need to compromise with the beasts
Our death here is a daily feast
Who will we accuse?
In the human market we are toxic and refuse
Even in the gates of heaven, for us there is no grant
Because of this depravation, we became skilled in repression
The stars in the skies laugh at us
To the dews of dawn, we are clown
The dust doesn’t treat us as human throng
Time, to whom do you belong?
To whom do you belong?
-Somoy Shafi
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