The Siege Goes On: Gaza Cries
By Professor Nehal Uddin Ahmad
A year has passed, and the siege goes on,
With bombs and hunger, dusk to dawn.
The world stands still, devoid of shame,
While Western powers feed the flame.
The might of war, the Zionist crest,
Falls hard upon the dispossessed.
They starve the child, they strike the womb,
And turn each dwelling into a tomb.
Now hunger is the sharpened blade,
A silent war through slow blockade.
A weapon shaped with cruel intent,
By empires masked in false consent.
Starvation genocide, their game,
A new design, refined by shame.
No need to shoot—just let them die,
While silence cloaks the world’s reply.
Seventy thousand souls have fled,
Mostly women, children dead.
The milk is dry, the water gone,
The scorching sun, the nights drag on.
Do you not see, O world of men?
Karbala walks these lands again.
Where thirst once took a holy stand,
Now children die in desert sand.
The UN watches, dumb and blind,
Its charter now a ghost, confined.
“We the people,” once declared,
Now Gaza cries, and none have cared.
Alas, the nations, blind and mute,
Refuse to act, refuse to root
For justice, peace, a righteous stand,
While Gaza starves, a scorched, forsaken land.
O world, awake! Can you not see?
The chains of silence shackle thee.
For if today we let this be,
Tomorrow’s sorrow shall claim thee.
O Almighty, save humanity,
The innocent, in their agony.
Remove injustice, end the pain,
Let Your mercy fall like healing rain.
Prof Nehaluddin Ahmad, LL.D. Professor of Law, Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University (UNISSA), Brunei, email: ahmadnehal@yahoo.com
