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Legacies of 1948 Delegation
Legacies of 1948 Delegation
Report #3:
Sixty Years Later – An Ongoing Nakba
Exile
By David Grishaw-Jones
I worked twenty years, drank no water,
Twenty years on this good land, sad land,
Had no water, drank no water, no water.
Around his eyes, dry furrows, parched earth –
I know when water will come, the old man says,
When they come for me with a coffin.
Then.
Family gathers around his grave,
Coffin rests in the tired land at last,
And a son, wiping tears from his own
Furrowed face,
Empties a pitcher of water
Upon father’s grave, upon parched earth:
Here’s the water you wanted
All your life, all your life,
Tears soaking the thirsty grave and
The dashed dreams of an old man,
An exile who never got home.
1 June 2008, Ein Hod
After watching “Not on Any Map,”a film about villages in the Galilee where internally displaced” refugees struggle together for water, electricity and human rights.
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