Rainy Day Ramallah written at Musallam Hospital

Rainy day Ramallah

Liquid not yet fallen fallen 

Falling from the sky

Gray so dark the color bodes

Of eyes so color blind

Of all sorrows we have heard

Many through the days

This is what we got

I’d rather be playing Guns n Roses with the band

I’d rather be back home not in this foreign land

But daddy he got sick today I had to do my share

No one cares how much I play till they know I care

Rainy day Ramallah its not like Paris France

Where poetry drips off the lips

Like sight starts with a glance

Here the movement’s slower

At least it seems to me

That birds don’t quite scrape the sky

Though they spread their wings

Dad’s asleep his mouth agape

It looks like he’s in pain

Or close enough to breath and gasp

And make the clouds drop rain

Upon this land so arid

So dreary and ashamed

Or is it just my memories

I tried so to escape

Here with Khaled and Waleed

Sohaila was there too

Fatima and me we watched

To learn this world so new

Back then it was raining too

We stepped out of a car

And ate a sweet delicacy

Too sweet for my taste

We also got wet when we walked

From the shop back to the car

And then on to Jericho

A journey seemed so far

We played as children often do

As if we’d smash into the hills

All barren and yellow, it’s the desert

Dad’s mouth is half open

He yellow dentures show

As if its hard to breathe

In time I know I’ll know

His own teeth long ago they failed

To meet his need

These fake and clumsy dentures

Each day to help him eat

On continents across the globe

My father wandered bravely

And taught a generation

How to break the barriers

How to get a passport

How to stand in line

How to fly upon a plane

And how to find a wife

He’s the one whose feet did run

And we just simply followed

He took at he risks

And we just mocked and followed

Dads eyes are like permanently teary

His look angry

His body is bruised and wounded

He’s a fighter

He just had a pouch of sodium chloride put into his left arm and he’s falling asleep watching the middle easts equivalent of Good Morning America

The drip drip drip is going down the hose

Rainy Day Ramallah