I refuse to be your enemy

a poem that was emailed to me that was requested by mike to be published.

your bullets can kill my body

but your army cannot conquer my rights

i am Palestinian

i refuse to be your enemy

your terrorism won't break me

your Jim Crow laws won't cow me

we've been here since the beginning

and we will out last you all

your barb-wire may keep you out and me segregated inside

but it imprisons you as well

you can erect apartheid walls between us

but we will build a bridge above and below

you can destroy my trees with your chainsaws and tractors

but i have many more seeds and i can plant with my hands

you may ravage my land

but i will tend and persevere

i wash off your ethnic cleansing and cruelty

with the grace of a G_D who made you and i as brothers

i open my heart and hands to you

even when you point your gun at me

you jail my body to torture without charge, trial or adalah

but my heart,mind and soul couldn't be more free

you try to hide your crimes from the eyes of the world

but silence is a scream and one day all will be seen and heard

still, i refuse to be your enemy

because we are kin and we have the same father

i will not fight you with raised fist

your hate can never defeat me

you kicked me out of my house

you can move in, i cannot stop you

but it will never be your home

i have the key and i will always have the right to return

yet, i refuse to be your enemy

this land is yours and mine to share given by the maker of us both

i demand to be your friend

and in time, one day, we will share bread again