Gaza Poem by Helen Wilby

We went walking down the dusty road
All the way to the barbed wire end
40 days and 40 nights
Lost in the wilderness my friend
Burning like the burning bush
Crying out our pain
Seems like the world's forgotten 
So it's happening once again

And the victims become the victors
And the bush keeps burning on
And once again the western world 
Turns it's deaf ear to the warsong
So we hang upon that barbed wire fence
Screaming out our grief
And the burning sun and the blackened dove
Allow us no relief

And they're bombing all the hospitals 
They're shooting up the schools
There are no cities left to us
They're breaking all the rules (Geneva where's that)
David's dark blue star soaring up on high
The wilderness below is deep blood red
While our streets are lying littered
With the bodies of our wounded and our dead

We used to be a world away,
We used to be another country.
Happening in another place
We were always someone else's war
Wearing someone else's face
Someone else's father mother sister brother
Someone else's daughter someone else's son
Never near to you never dear to you
Not till now when you're the one
And we know you're doing all you can
Doing what you absolutely must
While we're burning screaming crying 
While we're bleeding dying lying
Face down in the dust