You Cannot Bomb Me Anymore
POETRY FORMAT, 20 Apr 2015
Ada Aharoni – TRANSCEND Media Service
For International Women’s Day – 8 Mar 2015
Listen, little big man,
you cannot bomb me anymore
because I don’t allow you
to bomb me anymore
nor to choke
nor rape me anymore,
for I have my own strength now
and my own creative
peace business now
With this woman’s mind
this woman’s body
this woman’s heart –
we don’t allow you
to bomb us anymore
for our sisters in Norway
have shown us the way
and now –
you cannot, cannot, bomb us
anymore.
For it was
the grandmother
who ate the big bad wolf
and not the other way round —
so now
we will not allow you
to bomb us, bomb us,
ANYMORE.
_____________________________
Ada Aharoni is founder of The International Forum for the Literature and Culture of Peace-IFLAC. She is an Egyptian-born Israeli poet, writer, lecturer and peace researcher.
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