Israel And Palestine - Have Compassion And Stop Your Conflict As The Pandemic Is A Bigger War To Fight. Poem by Bernedita Rosinha Pinto

O' Israel and Palestine,
What is your gain, my friends
when a pandemic is claiming so many lives
all over the world
and people are struggling to stay alive
and in your country, bombs keep dropping like falling stars
creating deaths and destruction so callously?

O' Israel and Palestine,
what is your profit, my friends
when there is no greater catastrophe than a pandemic
as the pandemic has become a greater challenge than war
and though both war and a pandemic take away lives
of innocent people without any fault or justification
why would nations want to fight among each other
when the pandemic itself is causing so many deaths?

O' Israel and Palestine
what is your score, my friends
if you wage your war of rage
and you both cause so much of dismay
unto your own people and unto your own nations
and feel the same strength of trauma mutually
within your own hearts and within your own minds
when in this modern era there is an alternative
for peace and understanding?

O' Israel and Palestine
what is your yield, my friends
when in this field of war
you are both destroying the peace
of your two nations and putting families in such grief
that they keep crying for their dead fathers and husbands,
for their dead sons, brothers and sisters who die in those explosions and missile attacks so frequently?

O' Israel and Palestine,
What is your endurance, my friends
when all it takes is only a little bit of gentleness and tolerance
when all it takes is only a little of patience and reasoning
to bring about a peaceful solution
and to keep every one's eyes away from
those tears of hatred and vengeance?

O' Israel and Palestine,
what is the future of your nations, my friends
if enmity will go on and no generation will ever be able
to forget the mutual resentment
or forgive the deaths and the sorrow it emanates?

O' Israel and Palestine,
where is your humanity and kindness, my friends
when you are destroying your own beautiful cities
by firing rockets and missiles and by dropping bombs
on people who are so full of life and love every day
when there is peace and calm in their streets and alleys?

O' Israel and Palestine,
what is the worth of existence, my friends
if you will use bombs and missiles
to demolish your own abodes on this earth
and make people to die
when God has given you all enough to have and hold
and land so vast to care and share
with the whole humanity around you?

O' Israel and Palestine,
where is your eyesight lost, my friends
that you don't see a pandemic is killing
so many people softly and globally, in millions
and these are people who want to live and never die
while you are involving yourselves in a war
instead of respecting the life of yourself
and those around you?

O' Israelis and Palestinians,
what will you lose, my friends
if you choose peace rather than war in this time
if you choose good attitude than revulsion in these hours
as you will never want to see your own country in debris
as you will never want to see your nation turning
into another Syria if this war keeps escalating day by day?

O' Israel and Palestine,
where is your sense of compassion, my friends
as the war is afflicting the people of your nation
when they are confronting the deadly COVID virus
and the young and old keep staying awake all night
as there is no serenity to sleep
as bombs keep dropping, missile sirens keep blowing
making them live in fear and be alert all times?

O' Israelites and Palestinians,
where is thy courage and brotherhood, my friends
when every person from your own locality
is getting injured or facing death
but if both your nations reconcile your differences
a peaceful solution can be a sincere victory.

O' Israelites and Palestenians,
where is thy devotion and pledge to thy God, my friends
that you will live a full life which is your right
and die a death destined by ultimo heure
so that in heaven you secure your place
that you did not injure, incapacitate, displace
or cause demise of anyone while on this earth you lived.