Comments on: Help Make a Mother’s Day Wish for Hassan Come True http://mike.brisgeek.com/2010/06/09/a-mothers-day-wish-for-hassan/ ...or .NET and other stuff that wouldn't fit into Mike's day job. Mon, 21 May 2012 02:24:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Andrew Gray http://mike.brisgeek.com/2010/06/09/a-mothers-day-wish-for-hassan/#comment-102985 Andrew Gray Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:30:23 +0000 http://mike.brisgeek.com/2010/06/09/a-mothers-day-wish-for-hassan/#comment-102985 Beloved people of Gaza Treasured people of Palestine Teachers of courage and dignity Archetype of humanity Allow me to kneel down And wash your feet with my tears Kiss your blessed hands And sprinkle your beautiful faces with musk and roses While we sat pondering like fools Utterly helpless Talking much and doing less Going round and round in circles Thinking how to help What to offer you to relief some of your pain As usual Full of surprises, you come out to our rescue, to soothe our agony You present us with the most precious gifts Lessons in bravery Steadfastness, patience, perseverance, defiance, resilience Optimism against all odds Creativity in the face of utter oblivion You’ve demonstrated that you are the free ones … we are the captives You chose resistance over subjugation You decided not to be enslaved Not even to superpowers Would we ever learn from you? Beloved people of Gaza

Treasured people of Palestine
Teachers of courage and dignity
Archetype of humanity

Allow me to kneel down
And wash your feet with my tears
Kiss your blessed hands
And sprinkle your beautiful faces with musk and roses

While we sat pondering like fools
Utterly helpless
Talking much and doing less
Going round and round in circles
Thinking how to help
What to offer you to relief some of your pain

As usual
Full of surprises, you come out to our rescue, to soothe our agony
You present us with the most precious gifts
Lessons in bravery
Steadfastness, patience, perseverance, defiance, resilience
Optimism against all odds
Creativity in the face of utter oblivion
You’ve demonstrated that you are the free ones … we are the captives
You chose resistance over subjugation
You decided not to be enslaved
Not even to superpowers

Would we ever learn from you?

]]> By: Kathleen http://mike.brisgeek.com/2010/06/09/a-mothers-day-wish-for-hassan/#comment-102879 Kathleen Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:32:05 +0000 http://mike.brisgeek.com/2010/06/09/a-mothers-day-wish-for-hassan/#comment-102879 Thank you for sharing the story of Hassan (he is beautiful) and his family Mike, and writing about the apartheid in Palestine. My heart breaks for the children whose growth is stunted, who suffer anaemia, who can't get clean drinking water. We will continue to make our voices heard and protest this injustice! Thank you for sharing the story of Hassan (he is beautiful) and his family Mike, and writing about the apartheid in Palestine. My heart breaks for the children whose growth is stunted, who suffer anaemia, who can’t get clean drinking water. We will continue to make our voices heard and protest this injustice!

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