Can Isaac share, can Ishmael forgive

Can Isaac share
a part of his blessing
the brothers still fighting
over the inheritance

Abraham’s sons still dying
struggling for the land
hope in the cease fire
but is peace really at hand

Still fighting for his blessing
for the promised land
for an inheritance worthy
of the patriarchs

Two sons of the father
faithful, rewarded
the inheritance, the promise
the fruit of his seed

Ishmael was the first-born
but he did not earn the blessing
his fell to another
to his brother Isaac

Can Ishmael forgive him
his brother, Isaac,
can their descendants live
together in peace

Can they share the land
this rich blessing
their joint inheritance
can they live together in peace


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Edited November 23, 2012
merging two poems,
“Can Isaac share – v2” and
“Can Ishmael forgive him – v2”
November 22, 2012
&
announcement of a cease fire
between Gaza (Hamas) and Israel
November 21, 2012
&
the tragedy of the fighting in Gaza and Israel
and the source of the conflict
in the division of Ishmael and Isaac
the sons of Abraham


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