HIC JACET GAZAM (accusative case)
Hic jacet:
Here lies,
Where there was strength,
Hopelessness,
A redaction of history,
The rendering of an
Abrahamic race,
A pitiless erase.
Hinc illae lacrimae,
Where endless tears,
Are a symptom
Of systematic,
Annihilation,
Blood lust,
Apartheid,
And Genocide.
Hoc est bellum
War,
They cry out,
They celebrate.
A clarion call
To congregate
To justify, to apply
The Beit Knesset lie.
Hac lege,
The law,
They declare
To an assembly of
The dead
In the Beit Lahiya dunes
And ever haunted ruins.
Hic jacet,
Here lies,
Amongst the sycamore figs,
Where a father digs,
With dust tears,
And fatigue of life
For a decapitated child
And much loved wife.
Hinc illae lacrimae
Searing tears
For the thousands
Of innocents;
And they are:
Starved of love
Of sustenance,
And of deliverance.
Homo homini lupus,
They, the eretz wolves;
Are voracious,
Sacrificing lambs to deposit,
In the timeless layers:
A knesset of bones,
A charnel house
Of endless attribution
And retribution.
Homo sum,
I am a human being,
Haunted,
Because for Gaza
I can do nothing,
Except with these words
The wolves condemn.
Words, however, for dead children,
Are a useless requiem.
