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| Israeli soldiers coming back from the Lebanon war. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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| IAF Roundel for the F-4E that attacked SAM batteries in 1982 Israel-Lebanon war (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
His Blood
His Blood
Soaked a Land Not His.
In the shadow of foreign groves,
his body was chopped;
his image was lost amidst the
smoke of an alien war.
Farewell,
my son
In a struggle he wasn't born to
fight, his beauty was destroyed;
his eyes were blinded by visions he
wasn't meant to see.
Farewell,
my brother
Over burning fields and darkening
dunes, his spirit hovered;
his soul
towards different worlds ascended.
Farewell,
my friend
Not violent he was, not consumed by
vengeance and hate.
He was just a boy.
His
blood soaked a land not his.
–Hillel F. Damron
The poem was published in the literary supplement
of the
Israeli newspaper On Guard,
during the Lebanon War of 1982.
