The Sun Never Shines

It shines not sun in Palestine Held in pregnant grey clouds so high That hang so low in the sky so high. Burning hot deep within With secret sunny meaning While the sky refusing to part Open dark cloudy thighs at dawn And let spill down newborn Rainy seeds of fertile growth 'pon which shines a new sun Before down it goes at dusk. Celebrating our sun with an elegy Palestine still sing a happy dirge One that needs a hoarse voice: An epic for the big bright sun That a warm ray never shone Closer home and far abroad. * Motivated by the almost forgotten Israeli-Palestine conflict.