Palestine is like a sick woman.
Her body is being eaten away by rotten cancer until she is dying.
But she is pregnant and she must give birth soon.
Give birth to a baby she has been waiting for so long.
When the time comes for the birth the woman is in pain.
She screams in unbearable pain and bleeding profusely.
Slowly get her baby out of her womb that is being eaten away by rotten cancer.
A very slow and painful birth.
Too slow and too painful.
Until finally the woman dies after giving birth.
Ending the long painful suffering and giving the beginning of life.
To a weak premature baby who cries so loudly.
That is the cry of the newborn Palestine.


April 2025

By Alvian Eleven