Israel Harvests Death in the Fields of Lebanon

By Genevieve Cora Fraser

Al-Jazeerah, July 29, 2006

A spider’s web

Of electrical lines

Hovers over deserted

Streets awash in drifting

Dirt and rubble dust

A child’s blackened

Body sleeps in eternal

Peace Israel uses death

To pacify children

Cleansing cities

And villages of life

Apartments sheared

Expose rooms tilting

Down spilled contents

Chairs, tables, books

Beds tumble in a slide

Downward crash

Against the pavement

Cushioned by roof tops

At the bottom of the pile

Ghostly clouds billow

Brown against a patch

Of blue the weather

Of war is predictably

Bleak a growing season

For martyrs sprouting

From the rubble hands

Feet, a leg, an arm

A new crop of death

Watered in blood

Emerges as a blanket

Of bombardment

Spreads across Southern

Lebanon covered

By the tissue of lies

America fabricates

To protect her most

Precious Partner

In war crimes

Israel

From taking