Walls
El Shaddai is on both sides of both Walls
God is on all sides of all walls
Abraham Ibrahim you are brothers
Tel Aviv Ramallah you are sisters
The world is frightened.
You could be the spark
that starts the fire
that kills us all.
For the sake of your children, compromise
to love your neighbour, compromise
to obey your God, compromise
to save the world, compromise
To rediscover your own humanity
compromise.
The walls referred to in the second line are the Barrier being built around the West Bank by Israel and the Western or 'Wailing' Wall in Jerusalem, Judaism's holiest site, on the other side of which is Haram al-Sharif (The Temple Mount) containing the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque – Islam's third holiest site.
Nichola Burrows
Tue 27th Oct 2009 09:29
True Dave, religion is the cause of so much conflict.
Frightening that something that is historically and ideologically a form of control and preaches self-control to followers, in whatever form it takes for them, should be so out of control.
Really thoughtprovoking piece.x