How to Make a Child a Suicide Bomber
god blesses a parent
with the joy of a
child..
nurtured and loved.
she will grow up
in her community.
make friends, dream
of being a scientist
or artist, it changes
with each day,
children are like
that…
teenage years, one
minute
a child, then the
next
an adult.
what turns a joyful
innocent dreaming
child into a martyr?
is it living in an
occupied land?
being told
that as a Palestinian
she has no state?
the horror
of her family’s
home destroyed?
the grief that
the olive groves
tended for
generations
are bulldozed
by an army?
or is it the belief
that there is
no future for
a Palestinian child
and she will always
be a prisoner in her
own
land?
What makes a child a
suicide bomber?
