Sacred blood of mine Lead me to my resting home Down your crimson painted path Where I’d meet some of my very own.
I’d meet my cousin a proud man in his twenties with a wide grin and a wound that listed him as one of God’s attendees.
Mark my thresholds with your scent so people smell death for long to come a picture perfect dream is painted red A family of 11 has carved down to one.
The mother that raised me and a father who was proud Never had a will to fight for a childhood that I wasn't allowed
They came with their guns I came within sight None was shot down but the one that couldn't put up a fight.
The heart stopped beating. The soldiers did not, they fired their bullets through with an ounce of life I hurled a rock.
I greeted death with smiles knowing that rock would be my last. As a kid I had aspired. A martyr met his fate alas.
On the bridge between life and death I pondered upon and felt quite lost Do martyrs really die as mortals ? One way of knowing,content I strode across.
Faris Odeh, aged 14. A resident of Gaza, died in a clash with the Israeli forces. He liked hurling rocks.