Hamas and My Daughter Cannot Coexist

Hamas and my Daughter

can not

Coexist

because one of them

wants to

live

a full life

free and happy as a dove

loving

singing

dancing

wants to

dream

big dreams

enormous dreams

and make all of them

come true

with her own two hands

wants to play with

Friends

games in hebrew english arabic

a flower of Jerusalem

growing

deep roots in shared soil

deep laughs in shared breath

wants to be kind

just that

to live life being kind

kind to people on two legs

kind to people on four

kind to herself

knowing that is its own blessing

while the other one

wants her to die

a child,

guilty of the age old

Crime

of living while Jewish