HELA JENAYAH TEKALI

 

 

Rafah

 

Fleeing the rubble to stay in tents

Arson was set wherever they went

They sheltered and looked out for food

They chased them even in the wood.

The foe inflicted all his atrocity

He beheaded little babies and led to a calamity

All refugees were put in an ugly trap

The enemy's plan is to change the map.

Palestine has to be erased from geography

They were playing havoc with all humanity

Puppets under the hands of this genocide

Has history become a monstrous scene of sheer homicide?

Bombs and crimes become safe instruments

Civilians have to withstand psychic torments?

Rafah is all packed up under the severe blast

Fire has blistered entire bodies into sheer dust.

 

What About Us?

 

What about us we are silent!

Shame on us we do not rebel

We are colonized and subservient

When it comes to taking revenge as well.

What about us?

We are manipulated from within

Like 1984 pointing at our EYES its Giant Screen

The big brother is Watching Us

But our conscience does not make a fuss!

What about us?

Only a nation like Palestine reacts

To this barbaric policy, and destitute facts

Neither we rebel, nor take revenge

Drowned in our insomnia, we just surrender & plunge.

What about us?

Shame on all Arab nations

Who never point their fingers

And look at this calamity that lingers.

What about us?

Where 's the conscience of humanity?

Should we stick to insanity

Let the earth sink in blood

Turn its blessing into a disgusting flood.

What about us?

It's high time to heal all this barbaric stuff

Proclaim to see a rising laugh

Children are dying, and becoming martyrs

Save their souls from these burnable fires.

 

Standing Still!

 

I have spent all my childhood crying

Who's going to relieve my suffering?

I have been an orphan since an early age

My revolutionary spirit reinforced my rage.

A broken young girl I have ever been

What do you ever know of the word Sin?

You punish me for a wrong I have not done

Why do you prevent me from seeing the Sun.

Universal love has always been my motto

A resurrection of Descartes and his Cogito

I think therefore I exist is it still valid & true?

I feel therefore I live is what you strive to outdo!

You won't wipe the smile from my juvenile face

God will resuscitate my usurped Grace

As a young girl I will arise from the rubble

Standing still! it is rather you who'll have much trouble!

 

 

HELA JENAYAH TEKALI

 

HELA JENAYAH TEKALI is a mystical poet and novelist from Tunisia. An English teacher at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences,Tunisia. She has authored 12 books on Sufism and Spirituality, and Mystic poetry. Halos of Light (poetry 2015), the Quest of Love (poetry 2017), the Soaring of my Soul (poetry 2018), Mystical Eye ( 2018) and The Song Of The Thirsty Bird ( 2019) ; “Metaphysics : A Mirror to Mysticism” ( literary criticism 2019) , Alchemy : "Another Name For Love 2020 ", " Dives into Mysteries " under process .She has co-authored a book on Indo – North African Poetry entitled ‘Eternal Showers’. She has also figured on several international anthologies such as Rain Drops of Love, Birds of Peace, Ambrosia, and Our Poetry Archive. Hela Jenayah Tekali is a thorough – bred mystical poet who was honoured as Most Outstanding Mystical Poet by Philosphique Poetica , an international forum dedicated to Poetry, Art, and Philosophy. She was also conferred the Award of Ambassador of Literature by Motivational Strips, another international portal dedicated to poetry. WORLD ICON OF LITERATURE 2018 By Khazakhestan. She has also been published in the International Anthology of ‘Woman Of Essence’ by Ade Caparas Manilah, as well as written the Prefaces of Muhammad Shanazar’s poetry collection entitled “Voyages and Visions “ , and the preface of Muhammad Azram poetry collection entitled : “ The Canvas”. . Hela Jenayah Tekali has been the Managing Editor of two international anthologies: MYSTICAL VOICES ( 2021) and ETHICAL POETRY ( 2023) together with Dr Jernail Singh Anand as Chief Editor, she has alongside poetry published two novels : Invisible Grace ( 2021 ) , The Quest Of Sublime Hope (2024 ) and translated into French the "Poetry Cocktail " , a poetry collection by Dr Jernail Singh Anand. She has written a play which will be published soon and she is actually working on a third novel.