Who Sold The Country

Acrylic On Canvas Painting By : 

Yasmeen Abdullah -

From you the sword - and from us our blood

From you the steel and fire - and from us our flesh

From you another tank - and from us a stone

From you the tear gas - and from us the rain

And upon us what is upon you of sky and air

So take your share of our blood and leave

And upon us, we must guard the flowers of the martyrs

And upon us, we must live as we wish

It is time for you to leave

And die wherever you wish

But do not die among us

For we have work to do in our land

We have the past here

 We have the first voice of life

We have the present, and the future

We have this world here... and the hereafter

So leave our land Our land... our sea

Our wheat... our salt... our wound

Everything, and leave From the memories of memory

The war will end, and the leaders will shake hands, and that old woman will remain waiting for her martyred son, and that girl will wait for her beloved husband, and those children will wait for their heroic father.

I don't know who sold the homeland, but I saw who paid the price

Mahmoud Darwish