<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=517378" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Poetry And Politics Should Not Be Mixed</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I love my poetry pure and personal<br>The feelings of the single soul<br>In loneliness and love<br>In sadness and in happiness</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when they call us animal names<br>And say they want to kill us all <br>And when they make us into microbes and cancers<br>They say they will exterminate</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How can I go on just by myself only for myself? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mustn’t I say I come from a people <br>Whose Name for God means Peace<br>And who teach Kindness as life’s first quality? <br>A people who perhaps more than any other <br>Have suffered cruelty in their struggle to survive? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mustn’t I with my small words nonetheless strive to say<br>We will fight to survive <br>Though <br>We in Israel want no wars and no hate and no killing and no death<br>We want our neighbors to thrive and prosper <br>And all peoples to live and worship in their own way</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mustn’t I say <br>War will be waged only reluctantly as last resort<br>As Peace for all <br>Is what we need and pray <br>Lion with the lamb<br>Under fig tree and vine<br>As our prophets taught in the Holy Land<br>So many years ago.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Shalom+Freedman">Shalom Freedman</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=517378" data-title="Poetry And Politics Should Not Be Mixed de Shalom Freedman" data-description="I love my poetry pure and personal The feelings of the single soul In loneliness and love In sadness and in happiness But when they call us animal names And say they want to kill us all And when they make us into microbes and cancers They say th..."></div> </div> </div>

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