One Sorrow ... a poem

Sorrow 
( photo credit: cemetery sculptures found on Pinterest)

    One Sorrow

Israel.
Palestine.
Two words
generating rage

since 1948.

Failure to end
the Israel-Palestine
conflict
is what already is,

and has been
formally
since 1948.

One Israel and
No Palestine:

One tragic sorrow
with two words
and a billion
arguments
everywhere
exasperating
hostilities
and bad assumptions...

One land with two words
sparking insults
bigotry, bombs.

One land, and two words
with many meanings
perpetuating one war
that needs to end
with two fully free
fully secure, fully
sovereign states
making one true peace.

A courageous peace-
a compassionate peace
a reasonable peace
welcoming home
the rule of fair
and just laws,
welcoming home
all refugees,
welcoming home
one universal quest
for a better way forward.

                   poem copyright ©2014 Anne Selden Annab