Ziad Medoukh * Palestine

Love is resistance in Palestine!

Sixty years of occupation and colonization, of confinement,

and of life in parentheses But sixty years of existence, of dignity,

and of love A reasonable love, a bold love,

A powerful love, a mature love An impressive love,

a love full of tenderness, A love in the time of apartheid In a martyred Palestine.

Your wonderful love melodiously sung by my pen

Refuse all injustice A beautiful symbol of perseverance

He resists like a whole admirable people

It's a beautiful hymn of hope

Full of freshness and sweetness.

Sweet love like the sweetness of the Gaza sea

Love fresh like the freshness of the rivers of Nablus

Solid love like the originality of the buildings of Jerusalem

Sincere love, like the nobility of our cause

Creative love like the peace of your minds True love,

 like the goodness of your hearts. In harmony for half a century,

Long years of pink life even under pressure

You fervent lovers A lesson in selflessness and pride

Your love brings life to a dry land It's a rare rain in a harsh summer

It's a ray of sunshine in a monotonous winter

It shows the nobility of your souls.

Your humility meeting Your joy royalty

Your sovereignty happiness Your Freedom Marriage

Your beauty couple Your dignity dream

Your fraternity alliance your simplicity attachment

Your old age purity your identity fight

Your life together matures.

Your loyalty complicity your liveliness emancipation

Your pride sensitivity your spiritual stamina

Your desire for mature life your old age prosperity

Your memories honesty your solidarity adventure

Your affection originality Your optimism objectivity

Your diversity journey. Your path brightness

Your kindness generosity Your hopes truth

Your feelings serenity Your wisdom authority

Your courage stability Your existence humanity!

The flame of your tenacity love Your fidelity heartache!

When love touches hearts, Strengthens patience,

Satisfies the spirits, And overcome misfortunes,

Far from contempt and humiliation

Sweetness becomes raw material,

 And fragrant garden life. 

Princess and Prince of Palestine

You challenge the silence with your bravery

Create your love loud and clear

Enjoy this eternal love again Your hearts always revolt!

There is nothing more beautiful

Than to love each other in an occupied country

Where love is unwavering resistance. 

A love that won't yield to despair

With strength and sincerity, continue to love each other

You like all your people, the sickly-optimists

Your love is mightier than their weapons and their horror

They haters of life and love They will fail to appease your beautiful souls!

It's a love that fights barbarism and absurdity

A Palestinian love, a reasonable love,

Who takes us away from hatred and anger 

Love of life, love of the future,

Who don't care about walls and borders 

Your love gives more resonance to my verses,

To my words, and my oriental poetry

Lover of life and country

A love that breaks blockade and isolation

It is happiness submerged in dignity!

Your smiles at this age is strength,

A cure for the wounds of oppression

Your love embodies the history of Palestine

Your love restores value to peace and justice

Your love a cry a vibrant voice bringer of hope

Which breaks the black chain of the occupier. 

Your love even risky is an eternity of joy

 A nostalgia, a song melody

An endless noble dream Magical plots of gold

A path to the moon and to the stars

A shadow that spreads its veils

On the wings of birds Your love is clean air to breathe

He erases the tears of our orphaned children.

Of your love exhales the perfume of patience

Of your love is displayed the sweetness of dignity

Your love is law, it is law Which expresses all our legitimate hopes.

 Inescapable your love as the hope in Palestine. 

Yes, love is beautiful, and in Palestine

 it is very beautiful It is a beautiful and promising love.

Love in the time of colonization is resistance

A love that signs and persists!

He makes us free, despite the occupation

He will bring the dawn of our victory closer

And will open the door of peace

A light that shines on all our Palestine

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