A Ceasefire Fell
like an Angel Shot from the Sky
https://globalrights.info/2024/04/a-ceasefire-fell-like-an-angel-shot-from-the-sky/
"Mere minutes after the UN Security Council voted 14 to 1
(a solitary America raising the Flag of Abstention like
a marker over a mass-grave),
voted unanimously for the much needed - if temporary –
ceasefire to the savage slaughter of the Palestinian people
in the grim ghetto of Gaza
the sun broke through a catastrophe of clouds and
showered all the fearful faces with nameless blessings.
Even the dead tried stir from their restless sleep
to spread the news.
The children unpacked their tormented toys buried now
for over five months in rubble and broken body parts, in
desperation and debris
and even Hunger itself seemed
to denounce this meaningless and murderous fast
…when Algeria and Guyana, when Mozambique and Sierra Leone,
finally decided to say
No! Basta! Enough! Nunca Mas! No more! Never Again!
to this savage slaughter of helpless beings..."
(...contd.)
Global Rights - Talking Peace - Palestine (Full Poem)
“…It is a historic day today where for the first time after almost 6 months the Security Council adopted a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire…:”
Ambassador Riyad H. Mansour, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations
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