The Beginning Of The End

Posted on November 4, 2023 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

 

This is not the last battle

This is not the final blow

However

We have made the U turn

This is the road with no return

A pivotal battle on the path of liberation

 

 

Be prepared

It might even get more ugly

More grief and pain

But at the end of the tunnel

The light is glowing

  insha’ Allah

Just read the writing on the wall

 

The birth of a baby

Takes incredible energy

Patience, courage and willingness to sacrifice

Sacrifice one’s comfort, sleep, normality

And even one’s own life

A mother goes through unimaginable pain

It even gets more acute

Towards the end

But then, suddenly

Before we know it, it’s all over

Life is born

First breath is taken

A baby screams

Of joy and relief

Mama and Baba cry

Such is Freedom

 

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Seriously?

Posted on October 26, 2023 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

* * *
Seventy five years of deafening silence
As bombs rained down on Palestine
Day in day out
Year in year out
Droves of children wiped out
In their mothers’ arms
Screaming
O hear us world,
We’ve been mowed down
* * *
* * *
Seventy five years, turning a blind eye
The usurpation of the Holy land
Ethnic cleansing and slow genocide
Five generations
Children bones broken
Babies slain under your watchful eyes
Their tender bodies mutilated
Their dreams pulverized
Their lives torn down
* * *
* * *

Where have you been, all that time?

* * *

* * *
Seventh of October 2023
Enough is Enough
Said Palestine
Gathered her pain
And tried to push back
* * *
* * *
You, leaders in the “civil” West
Taken by surprise
Your “moral compass”
Flickered in outrage
Seventh of October 2023
Not a day before, not a day after
Your humanity “awakened”
Only for a day
* * *

* * *

Your “Judaeo-Christian” values
Flinched for a day
Calling for revenge
Chanting kill them all
* * *
* * *
Deaf… Dumb and Blind
Dead before that

Dead after that

* * *
* * *
You broke your silence
Parroted the lies
“This is barbarity”
“This is terrorism”
“We bemoan the dying”
“We value human life”
With ‘israel’ we fight
With ‘israel’ we stand
* * *
* * *
Then soon after that
Day in day out
You’ve seen the massacres
You’ve witnessed all
Crimes Against Humanity
Extermination and Genocide
Live on your TV screens
Children shaking
Mothers howling
Fathers’ faces soaked in tears

Carrying baby limbs in plastic bags

* * *
* * *
Did you bat an eyelid
Did you lift a hand
Not even a whisper
Not a peeping sound
* * *

* * *
Gaza flattened
Rafah wiped out
While you rejoice
Total annihilation!
The follower of Jesus
And his Holy land
* * *
* * *
Thousands of lives has no value
They are not the “chosen”
Not the “Israelites”
Eat their flesh
Drink their blood
Feast on their misery
Fear no consequence
Count your mitzvahs
As you maim the “cursed” ones
They are not the “chosen”
Not the “Israelites”
The world wouldn’t mind
Wink, wink
Life goes on
All is cool
To your bigoted mind
* * *
* * *
Repeat your mantra
‘israel’ must defend itself
Send more arms, rain more fury
 At the feet of Baby-Killer, rub your faces
Receive her “blessing” as you kiss her hand
* * *
* * *
Scream in frenzy
A Jew has died
A Jew has died
A Jew has died
* * *
* * *
Frothing at the mouth
“Do you condemn Hamas?”
You have the chutzpah to ask
Seriously?
Have you no humanity?
Have you no shame?
* * *

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No More Pain

Posted on October 19, 2023 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

Pile your ugly missiles and guns

Froth at the mouth drinking my blood

Feast on your foul bars of gold

Beat your chests, rejoice my death

Until we meet at Court Divine

Your final shock and awe will be

Your “chosen-mess”, your own demise

I am done with you… serene I am gone

Angel in the sky I glide

Ear to ear my gorgeous grin

Free of sadness, fear and pain

Unlike before, now able to play

I sing, I dance, I jump, I fly

With utmost joy and endless fun

🤍 🤍 🤍

Pile your ugly missiles and guns

Froth at the mouth drinking my blood

Feast on your foul bars of gold

Beat your chests, rejoice my death

Until we meet at Court Divine

Your final shock and awe will be

Your “chosen-mess”, your own demise

I am done with you… serene I am gone

Angel in the sky I glide

Ear to ear my gorgeous grin

Free of sadness, fear and pain

Unlike before, now able to play

I sing, I dance, I jump, I fly

With utmost joy and endless fun

🤍 🤍 🤍

Pile your ugly missiles and guns

Froth at the mouth drinking my blood

Feast on your foul bars of gold

Beat your chests, rejoice my death

Until we meet at Court Divine

Your final shock and awe will be

Your “chosen-mess”, your own demise

I am done with you… serene I am gone

Angel in the sky I glide

Ear to ear my gorgeous grin

Free of sadness, fear and pain

Unlike before, now able to play

I sing, I dance, I jump, I fly

With utmost joy and endless fun

🤍 🤍 🤍

Pile your ugly missiles and guns

Froth at the mouth drinking my blood

Feast on your foul bars of gold

Beat your chests, rejoice my death

Until we meet at Court Divine

Your final shock and awe will be

Your “chosen-mess”, your own demise

I am done with you… serene I am gone

Angel in the sky I glide

Ear to ear my gorgeous grin

Free of sadness, fear and pain

Unlike before, now able to play

I sing, I dance, I jump, I fly

With utmost joy and endless fun

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Blending In Love

Posted on January 31, 2022 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian


When overwhelmed
I run outside
I chase my nightmares
Holding my hand
From strands of a rainbow
Gather some colours
In pots of gold


* * *
Back home, serene
I sit in a corner
With a thread of stars
And a bunch of flowers
I braid my song
Stitching my heart
On grandma’s robe




* * *
High from Heaven
Her eyes twinkle
Her smile glows
Seeing her baby
Comes back to life

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* * *
A splash of love
Falls from above
Graceful Divine
The weary soul
Swells up with joy
Tears of elation
Bows down and prays

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Nostalgia

Posted on January 8, 2022 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

My uncle sent me this video of our beloved village of Beit Iksa, so I wrote


You touched me deeply, dear uncle
I asked my tears
How breathtakingly beautiful this part of earth is!
How deep is her pain and how profound is her sorrow!

When I saw her, as if my eyesight was lost
The mind wandered like a terrified motherless filly that doesn’t know the way
Heart stopped beating
Soul melted, limbs trembled
Guts churned, breath taken away 

Deep love drowned in excruciating pain
Overwhelming joy faded away into eternal sadness
I no longer know who I am, where I came from or where am I going

Do I cry of euphoria or laugh of sorrow and grief?
The strings of my soul intermingled with her soil
You wouldn’t know anymore, which was me or which was her

Sun stood still and earth is no longer revolving
Overwhelmed with nostalgia
Childhood love erupted without warning
The yearning of youth in my being set ablaze
Weaving agony in my grieving heart
I thought I had buried years ago

However,
Laws and Truth of God, can never be changed, forever prevail
From the darkness of agony shines the dawn of glory and hope
From the bitterness of sorrow, the sweetness of patience and gratitude, enjoyed forevermore

“The earth will gleam with the Light of its Lord, and the Records shall be set up, and the prophets and the witnesses will be brought forward: and a just decision pronounced between them; and they will not be wronged (in the least).”

Would a rope tightened to God be ever cut off?
Does a heart connected to the Most Loving Sublime, would ever know despondency or despair?
Would a Divine promise from the Most Merciful ever be broken?

God-forbid… No way!

“when the second of the warnings will come to pass, We will raise up a people that they may disgrace your faces and may enter the Mosque as they entered it the first time, and that they may destroy with utter destruction whatsoever extreme power/ hegemony, you may have achieved/accumulated”

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قدس الأقداس

Posted on October 4, 2020 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

عندما تتألمين تتألمين بعنف ليس كألم الناس

عندما تحبين تحبين بعنف ليس كحب الناس

عندما تفرحين تفرحين بعنف ليس كفرح الناس

قدس الأقداس أنت

باعك الأنجاس في سوق النخاسة

عجبت هل من شئ على وجه هذه الارض لم نتعلمه منك؟

حتى وأنت ثكلى مثقلة بجراحك، تعتصرين ألما

تطلين علينا من محرابك بابتسامة فاتنة

تلقيننا دروسا في الفرح والعشق والامل

كنا قد نسيناها

وي كأن الله عندما قسم الجمال اعطى عُشره للكون ووالباقي كله لك

وعندما قسّم الطهر اعطى عُشره للكون والباقي كله لك

وعندما قسّم الصبر اعطى عُشره للكون والباقي كله لك

وعندما قسّم الآلام اعطى عُشرها للكون والباقي كله لك

وعندما قسّم الافراح اعطى عُشرها للكون والباقي كله لك

وي وكأن دموعك القدسية تأبى أن تنساب إلاّ مزاميراً بنكهة الجنة

علمينا الحب يا حبيبة فإنا قد نسيناهُ

علمينا كيف نجني الفرح من صحارى الأحزان

وكيف من بذور اليأس نحصد الأملا

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Stitched

Posted on September 30, 2020 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

 

My wounded soul is a patch work

Chopped pieces of stubborn memories

Fraying at the edges

Vivid all around

Refusing to fade away

 

Stitched together with a thread of love

Embroidered with hope

My soul became a piece of art

Suited for a museum

 

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Love the Land حب الارض

Posted on June 13, 2020 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

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ما اروع حب الارض

❤️

حب الارض عبادة فهو يعمر القلب بالشكر والامتنان ويطلق اللسان بالذكر والحمد ويسمو بالروح الى مراتب القرب والعرفان ❤️

حب الارض مقاومة
فهو يرد على من يريدون تدمير الحياة باعتناق الحياة وغرسها والعناية بها حتى تثمر وتزهر

حب الارض شفاء للجسد والعقل والقلب والروح

 

❤️ ❤️

How splendid love of the land is !

Loving the land is a prayer, it fills the heart with grace and gratitude, moves the tongue with songs, prayers and praise, and elevates the soul in awareness and intimacy ❤️

Love the land is resistance !

It is a practical response to those who want to destroy life; by embracing, planting and caring for life until it yields and blooms

Love of the earth is a therapy and healing for body, mind, heart and soul 

 

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حنين

Posted on April 14, 2020 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

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لاجئ مزمن، زمهرير الغربة القارس يزجك في اعماق الاماني الندية بحثا في ثنايا ذاكرتك المنهكة المفعمة بالحنين عن بعضك الذي اضعته ذات ليلة دامعة
تحاول بلهفة مرتجفة ان ترسم معالم زمن مضى وتلون وجوها مسح تقاطيعها ألم دفين، فتزرع زعترا اخضرفي غير موسمه ولا زمانه ولا مكانه، في بلاد بعيدة وبين شعوب غريبة لا تعرف للزعتر اسما ولا رسما ولا طعما
تترفق وانت تقطف وريقاته الغضة عسى بعطره ان يطير بك الى حاكورة بيت عتيق على سفح الجبل، حيث يرقد الحسون في عشه ويغفو السنونوعلى غصن شجرة لوز
تبني بيديك طابونا من الطين، عسى ان تحملك رائحة خبزه الى زمن جميل كان وما عاد او الى حضن جدة دافئ، وتترقرق جداول الامل المعجونة بالالم، دموع فرح حزين ويخال لك كأنما بال(طين) قد استرجعت بعضا من فلسطين
وتعجن وتخبز وتحشو فطائر الزعتر في بلاد العجم التي ما اعترفت يوما بك كتاريخ او جغرافيا او حقوق او حضارة ولسان حالك يقول لهم آه لو تعلمون، لرأيتم الثرى يباهي الثريا ان داسته اقدام اجدادي، فترد الثريا بل الفخر لي ان اخلاقهم علت عليّا

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Nostalgia

Posted on April 14, 2020 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

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A chronic refugee, the bitter​ exhausting​ exile​ throws you into the depths of dewy dreamy aspirations​. You ran frantically searching​ for you​ between the folds of your exhausted, nostalgic memories, which ​you’ve lost​ on​ce upon a​ tearful night.

With trembling eagerness, you try to trace the features of a time long gone, and paint faces that had lost its miens, expressions and demeanor, to a deeply buried pain.

You sow za’ater seeds, during the wrong season, wrong time and wrong place, in faraway lands, amidst strangers who do not know its name, colour, scent or flavour.

You tenderly pick its budding leaves, hoping that its perfume would fly you away to a childhood orchard with an ancient house at the foothills, where a goldfinch dozed off in its nest, and a swallow slumbered on a almond tree branch.

You lovingly build a taboon, a clay oven, with your bare hands, hoping that the aroma of its bread would carry you away one day, to a distant land and a beautiful time which once was, never to return, or rock you to sleep, in the warm arms of your grandmother.

Springs of hope plaited with pain, gush through your anguished soul. Tears of grieving joy flow, so much so that for a moment, you would imagine that with a lump of terracotta clay between your fingers, a chunk of Palestine had been liberated.

Kneading, rolling, baking and stuffing za’ater pies in the land of Balfour, which has never recognized you, your history, your geography, your rights, your humanity or your civilization.

You scream silently: O you, if only you knew !  You would have seen the soil of my homeland boasting before the stars, that my ancestors had meandered over it. With a huge grin, the stars would respond: glory is all mine for their love, hospitality and kindness have surpassed my lofty skies.

 

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