Poems written by Peter Gibbs over 60 years, inspired by romance, travel, the beauty of nature, emotions and family and friends - peterspoetry.co.uk
The Endless Cycle
All around is shattered
All around is grey
Once they hoped for freedom
Now for life they pray
Bombs descending from the skies
Buildings quickly razed
Utter swift destruction
And only few are saved
Underneath the rubble
Underneath harsh stone
Families are buried
Leaving kin alone
From crowded streets in Gaza
Towards the south they fled
Many seeking sanctuary
Are numbered with the dead
In lines upon the broken earth
The bodies wrapped in white
The wailing of the just bereaved
A background to the sight
Hospitals at breaking point
Some injured turned away
Aid supplies exhausted
And yet the workers stay
The innocents the victims
Just like Israelis slain
No party they to massacre
And yet they feel such pain
While on the nearby borders
With tanks the soldiers wait
For call to start invasion
For some just death their fate
In darkened Hamas tunnels
Where hostages they'll seek
Those snatched in hours of terror -
The elderly and weak
This tragedy unfolding
Has roots back many years
A people robbed of homeland
Are drowning in their tears
The world that let it happen
Now looking on aghast
Landless Palestinians
Condemned here by the past
Unless the cycle's broken
And settlement is found
No peace will reign in Holy Land
More blood will soak the ground.
