Dear Mothers of Palestine,
Hope you had enough to fed your bellies today,
possibly pregnant with child,
as the Western world in its vicious, sanctimonies, hypocrisy,
sips more numbing wine, with gluttonous cake.
Accepting the sale of their souls for a greedy swamp.
You as Mothers of Palestine are loved and admired and respected worldwide.
But the leading Mothers of the apartheid and racist state, who oppress you,
with support from the leading Mothers of the EU and the USA,
have shamed themselves.
To numb ones soul for the price of power is anti human.
They will pay a high price for their cruel hearts and stinking greed.
Only Visionaries like your selves will change our world.
You who refuse to mistake the limits of what is permitted, for the horizon of what is possible.
You who possess uncommon grace, sweetness, integrity, culture and charm.
Dispirited but not defeated.
creativity is your valiant way of defiance,
to find a new way out from the oppressor..
with your sacred devotion to what you hold dear.
Anyone who can uproot an olive tree does not belong to that land.
But your love of the land and of the place you call home,
will always hold a loving rooted connection to place.
You understand stewardship and care and love, and striking beauty.
Yet Beauty being in ‘the eye of the beholder’ precludes the oppressor from vision.
Knowing of no beauty sterilizes the human mind .
You Mothers of Palestine know what it is to walk more deeply in your homeland
and sense great resonance of the vibrations of your land.
Your consciousness knows that land holds memory.
Your awareness of lineage, knows your ancestral connection.
Holding your devotion to Life and Home.
And you will return, like the Nightingale, who returns to the same tree from where she was born.
You offer us a spiritual revolution.
Stories of courage and comradeship ,
abhorring genocide where the licence to kill with impunity, glorifies violence.
Military occupation is about death and turning people into corpses.
Trained hatred and rejection of love, corrodes the soul
But giving life and holding the sanctity of preservation of life itself, is what you do.
dear Mothers of Palestine.
Miriam Ryan
An Irish Mother
