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Do All Dogs Go to Heaven?

By Yoanna Hailu

 

As a soldier I was taught that they're just silhouettes

 

My eyes were trained to strip them of their humanity 

 

For in the eyes of a soldier there is no room for regrets

 

The children of West Bank play hide n’ seek no more

 

Tiny brown bodies lay beneath rubble

 

All of their hopes and dreams robbed by war 

 

I kill for peace 

 

Palestinian blood mixes with the sweat on my hands 

 

I kill for my birthright  

 

For God promised my fathers these lands 

 

I was only doing what I had been trained to do 

 

I have disposed and dispossessed 

 

More lives than I can count

 

Will my sins be forgiven? 

 

Tell me...do military dogs go to heaven?

 

Postscript:

In this poem I express my anger and frustrations with the Israeli military. In no way am I referring to all Israelis as dogs, I am however condemning all those complicit in the oppression and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Israeli soldiers violate Palestinians' human rights everyday without consequence which is what fuelled the emotion of this poem. Yoanna, Shalome

 

26.05.2021

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