Tagheyyur.

Rachel Corrie , beautiful soul, born in Olympia, Washington was no ordinary child, no ordinary 23 year old student and no ordinary human being. And people, who are extraordinary, never die. They live for ever in the hearts and minds of their followers. They give direction to many and because of them, hope never dies. Because of such crazy and courageous, the ugliness of injustices is exposed. Her 5th grade speech ‘I am here because I care’ revealed no small dreams. At such a tender age, she talked of the oppressed, the poor and hungry and resolved to eradicate the ugly realities by the year 2000. As a student, she was different and wanted to explore the world especially after 9/11, year 2001. Ditching a beautiful and colourful American dream which she could have lived like many of her age, she travelled thousands of miles to Gaza to act as a human shield, where mercy and humanity is butchered every day and night, where men, women and children are murdered as a part of ethnic clea...

Our spring in Palestine is born in a prison cell, Our spring in Palestine is born- shackled to hospital bed, Our spring in Palestine is born with an administrative detention order against it, but it blossoms, even in hunger, even in hunger- I pray you strength, I pray you justice, I pray you freedom, Hana! I pray your heart muscle holding all of us tonight, holding on a day longer, sunrise stronger, do forgive me sister, I forgot prayers sometime ago, lost them in alleys and refugee camps, too crowded with shrapnel memory, when sound barrier breaking, skies breaking, sound breaking, wasn't sure our voices reached God anymore, that same year 82-you were born, but you cultivate hope in me, so I light candles and kneel to whisper, I pray you strength, I pray you justice, I pray you freedom, you cultivate hope in the rest of us, cultivate that part hungry for freedom, that part hungry for justice,   lost in road maps to nowher...