When The Murderers Return To Gaza

WHEN THE MURDERERS RETURN TO GAZA When the murderers return to Gaza There will be dancing in the streets Guns will be fired in the air Sweets dispersed to clamoring children Triumphal speeches of boasting and hate High- stepping clowns in military uniforms A crowd screaming in happiness cries for more blood- But back in Israel where the victims’ families are There will be only more quiet pain More disturbance at the betrayal and broken promises- Their loved ones’ murderers set free By politicians who said they never would- Justice will not have been done Fairness and Truth too will have been murdered- One tortured and broken Israeli soldier will come home- And hundreds of Palestinians well- fed and healthy With blood on their hands And more blood in their hearts Will be free to try to murder again.