Opinion Editorials, March 2004, www.aljazeerah.info
Human Price of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine
Israeli daily aggression on the Palestinian people
Mission and meaning of Al-Jazeerah
Cities, localities, and tourist attractions
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Shattered
By Diana Gwinn
March 6, 2004
Dedicated to the Palestinian and Haitian refugees and in memory of J. Krishnamurti
I should have known
The day I came home
Finding you all alone
Drowning in a blood-red sea
Of broken mirrors
Reflecting fragmented faces
Furtive, secret mazes
Disconnected places
Dark empty spaces
Shattering all illusions
About the perfect strangers in the looking glass.
How could I have known
So far from home
Wandering on my own
Suffocating in a black-grey netherworld
Occupied by hooded demons hiding
From the mirror’s lucid light.
Diana Gwinn is a 57 year old mother, grandmother and great-grandmother of African, Native American, Mexican (Mestizo) and European ethnicity. Her father who just died was a coal-miner and a WWII combat medic who received 4 bronze stars. Both grandfathers were coalminers. She is the oldest of 10 children.
She was the first in her family to get a college education. She has been an art teacher and she is currently working as a real-estate appraiser. She is also an activist for human rights, justice and peace. And in her spare time she writes, draws, paints, sings and dances.
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| Earth, a planet hungry for peace |
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank, like a Python. (Alquds,10/25/03). |
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