Palestine!
We pray for you, Palestine!
The bangs you bear
Uh! The burdens we carry...
The widowed woman astride the rubble
The rolling tanks how they ramble
Not a whimper follows the mean metal
Not a word meets the swelling poison.

The children of Gaza the searing burns
The shrieks of horror the charred faces
What dreadful hands make these holes!
What culpable minds coughed up this order!

Palestine! We pray for you, Palestine!
Humanity's bewitched...
So go on,blessed be the kites hurled.
So go on, tear the monster down to his puny self.
Hurt the thief where it hurts the most
His bloated ego prick,
Blessed be the kites hurled.
Bid him goodbye with your bare hands.

Blessed be the kites hurled
Gaza's the road to Beit al Maqdis
Gaza's the road to Al Aqsa masjid.
Blessed be the kites hurled.

Palestine! We pray for you, Palestine!
Know that tyrants are never forever
And Dome of the Rock must shine forever
Repression's end is well nigh
Olmert's era's only a rhyme.

The Knesset camp's all gloom
Souls wayward wicked corridors mushroom.

It’s only a matter of time
From the ashes soon shall you arise
Over terrorist Olmert and his crew the eagle shall you glide
It’s only a matter of time.

Copyright Safi Abdi, (c)1982
Revised on Day 20 of Gaza War. Jan.15, 2009.