A Dream...By Mike Odetalla

A Dream

By Mike Odetalla

www.hanini.org

One day as I awoke

In mother’s home

In Palestine

I jumped out of bed

To the window I ran

Pulling back the curtains of time

I could clearly see

A wall so stunning

I had to rub my eyes

Is this a dream?

A heavenly wall

Of olive trees

As far as the eye could see

Everywhere I looked

Olive trees swaying in the morning breeze

I called out to mother

Come! See nature’s wonder

Olive trees going on and on

For what looked like

Eternity

And the people!

Oh my!

The people were running and laughing

In ecstasy

Suddenly I felt a gentle nudge

From behind

I closed my eyes and opened them again

I was no longer in mother’s home

I was in my own bed

I got up and looked out the window

The trees were bare

The cold winds were howling

In the night

And there was not a single olive tree in sight

It was a dream

A beautiful, but cruel dream

I went back to bed

Hoping and praying

The dream would come back to me

But to no avail

I closed my eyes, concentrating as hard as I could

But the only images that came to me

Were the cruel

Images of an uprooted olive tree

And the people who were running and laughing joyfully?

The only image that came to me

Was of mother

Weeping under a lone olive tree…

I awoke to write this poem

So everyone can share in my dream

And

Misery

11-09-03

This was an actual dream that I had last night.
I could not get the images out of my head.
I had spent the night reading about the many olive trees
that are routinely destroyed by the Israeli government and the Jewish settlers.
The last image I had in my head was that of an elderly woman weeping
for her uprooted trees…I was also reading about the wall and went to
bed thinking of these things…
I live in the US where it is rather cold this time of the year…

Mike

Mike Odetalla..."A seed in the eternal fruit of Palestine"

"Come, I'll tell you about Palestine" www.Hanini.org

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