In your arms I imagine
No divide of region
In your eyes, I dream
No country supreme
Separated by oceans
Alas, neighbours we join
Cut off by guns divide
No touching, love denied
The air we breathe…equal
The skies we see…identical
Tears we cry shape our pain
Apart by borders…detained
My heart rejects defeat
My mind wrestles deplete
Barriers cannot seize my desire
Barricades silence the town crier
Aspirational possibilities shan’t die
Anticipation of intimacy, my cry
Expectations I shall not forsake
Faith in the odds my partake
Throw me ball-like to the other side
Catch me free, lest free will collide
Hold peace in wars harrowing toll
Embrace hope appeals my soul
My heart echoes through these barriers
Tracing your heart unites warriors
Tones of silent sound…loudly spoken
Written on echoes waves, unbroken
Connected are we in love’s calm
Stillness in chaos, confident in alarm
No walls, no heights, no depth, no width
Shall separate love, from hence we conquereth
Write on the walls of divide
Write our pledge to unite
Write freedom, for lasting peace
Write truth, write to decree
Inscribe for the generations
Engrave our hope’s celebration
Love’s strength, stronger than war
Master hate for love, blood abhor
This wall, this love, this hopeful passion
Recite my heart, carve my vision
Salwa Samra © 2012
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Salwa Samra
Salwa Samra is a New Zealand-born, Australian Lebanese author, poet, cultural critic & investigative researcher, anchored in a Christian biblical worldview, shaped by a profound reverence for poetry, history, philosophy and relevance.
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