un-Enchanted
She untucked the tail of my shirt, sneaked two delicate fingers down the small of my back, rubbed circuitously then whispered gently: ” Is that where it hurts? ” “ I’m aching here and all over ”, I winced, the sharp pain stabbing down my leg. She wrapped her arm around me. I leaned on her and we resumed our unhurried amble on the waterfront. Chasing her silhouette in my eyes, she despairingly called me “ un-Enchanted ” then held her breath and plunged deep within. We kissed till eternity, or so it seemed. I’ve been lifeless since Israel had commenced its savage and indiscriminate decimation of Palestinians in Gaza, Palestine. How careless we are with words. It’s as if this furious warfare against humanity had been between a lawful state and a renegade “strip”. It’s not! It never was anything but a war for survival between an illegal entity and the native inhabitants of a country that is Palestine. In the short run Israel might have massacred a thousand or more Palestinians and physica