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Broad smiles and tender eyes
A bride and a groom joyfully embrace
In the gap between two wars
They kidnap some love
Smuggle it through smoke filled skies
Without any rituals, not even goodbyes
Bury it deep in their trauma-bruised hearts
A gift from the One, Most Kind, Most Sublime
They prayed for their love, forever to grow
To scatter in abundance, over friend and foe
A splash of wonder, beauty and grace
A heavenly blow of shock and awe
Awaken a world, long-stagnant in daze
Between two funerals, avoiding a missile
Dropped from above by some “master-race”
Majed and Sara held tight their hands
Snatched a flash of tiny joy
From jaws and claws of a hungry Death-Ace
In a moment of eternity, as time ceased to be
A four day truce
Drizzles of hope, they tried to retrieve
Capture in their cracked hearts
To share with humanity
Revealing God’s miracles
In the most unexpected place
A doorless room in a refugee school-camp
When bombs are not falling
They seize a laughter, or a gentle gaze
Majed and Sarah are not mere names
Two Palestinians, out of many millions
Full of life, deprived of life
On the brink of death
They hang onto life, every moment of their life
Let their magic tale be embroiled in your very dear life
Save in a file, post, like and share
Eradicate hasbara lies of soldiers-cyberspace
Here lived a people
Who dearly adore life
Noble, soulful, proud yet not vain
Enduring, endearing, grateful, humane
Despite the horrors they’ve seen
Faithful, hopeful, steadfast they remain
Hearts of millions they hold spellbound
Faith and humanity they nurture and sustain
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Majed and Sara’s wedding
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Yasmin and Muhammed’s wedding
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Poetry for Palestine 