neurotic Iraqi wife
July 16, 2006
The World is Twirling Silently in Space...
Its 330 am, and I find my eyes stuck on the TV screen...Im watching a channel that has live pics of southern Beirut and just now a large bombing took place...BOOM...Brings back very hurtful memories..Watching the black smoke in the red skies....This is like March 2003 over again...This is like the days I spent mourning my own country....I wander how many kids have died in this particular bombing???I wander how many innocent people lost their lives because of the selfishness of politicians....The inhumane thinking...I wander...Are you wandering too???Or is it just normal for this to happen...Is this what we have become...
I dunno why but this song just came into my mind this second while I was wandering what has become of the World....
Round Like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning On an ever-spinning reel Like a snowball down a mountain
Or a carnival balloon Like a carousel thats turning Running rings around the moon
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping Past the minutes of its face
And the world is like an apple Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind
Like a tunnel that you follow To a tunnel of its own Down a hollow to a cavern
Where the sun has never shone Like a door that keeps revolving In a half-forgotten dream
Or the ripples from a pebble Someone tosses in a stream
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping Past the minutes of its face
And the world is like an appleWhirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind
Keys that jingle in your pocketWords that jangle in your headWhy did summer go so quickly? Was it something that you said? Lovers walk along a shore
And leave their footprints in the sand
Is the sound of distant drummingJust the fingers of your hand?
Pictures hanging in a hallway And the fragment of a song Half-remembered names and faces
But to whom do they belong? When you knew that it was over You were suddenly aware
That the autumn leaves were turning To the colour of her hair Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning On an ever-spinning reel
As the images unwindLike the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind
ALL I WANT IS MY SISTER TO BE BACK HOME SAFE AND SOUND!!!
I dunno why but this song just came into my mind this second while I was wandering what has become of the World....
Round Like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning On an ever-spinning reel Like a snowball down a mountain
Or a carnival balloon Like a carousel thats turning Running rings around the moon
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping Past the minutes of its face
And the world is like an apple Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind
Like a tunnel that you follow To a tunnel of its own Down a hollow to a cavern
Where the sun has never shone Like a door that keeps revolving In a half-forgotten dream
Or the ripples from a pebble Someone tosses in a stream
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping Past the minutes of its face
And the world is like an appleWhirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind
Keys that jingle in your pocketWords that jangle in your headWhy did summer go so quickly? Was it something that you said? Lovers walk along a shore
And leave their footprints in the sand
Is the sound of distant drummingJust the fingers of your hand?
Pictures hanging in a hallway And the fragment of a song Half-remembered names and faces
But to whom do they belong? When you knew that it was over You were suddenly aware
That the autumn leaves were turning To the colour of her hair Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning On an ever-spinning reel
As the images unwindLike the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind
ALL I WANT IS MY SISTER TO BE BACK HOME SAFE AND SOUND!!!
11 Comments:
I have a lot of relatives still living in Lebanon, so I know how you feel. All we can do is hope the bloodshed stops soon before more civilians are hurt. I'll be praying for your sister.
i hope ur sister will be home safely.
ur family has been through a lot already as is.
May your sister come home safely...What a horrible situation...People going to Lebanon for a holiday, and overnight, the whole world is turned upside down...How could this be?
Iraqi Wife,
I wish the best for your sister. As long as she avoids the Hezbollah areas, I am sure she will be fine.
When I first heard the news media say that this entire thing was predicated on the kidnapping of two soldiers, I thought it was an outrageously disproprotionate agression on Israel's part. I was also surprised at how quickly it all accelerated.
However, the more I read, the more I learn that when Israel pulled out from Lebanon 5 years ago, the Lebanese permitted Hezbollah to arm 30,000 forces and to set up thousands of missiles/rockets. They have fired missiles into Israel over the last 5 years. The UN and everybody else told Lebanon to deploy the Lebanese army into south Lebanon and assert control over Hezbollah and to disarm them. They failed to do it, so now Israel is having to do it for them.
Basically, south Lebanon had become like Afghanistan with the Taliban and Al-Quaeda and Osama Bin Laden.
I hope all sides take respect for innocent civilians. The terrorists often locate their weapons storage facilities in houses and regular neighborhoods! And fire rockets from the back yards of homes!
I am praying for the safety of your family and all civilians...particularly womena nd children. Will this never end?
original_jeff, what is the justification for the attack on non Hezbollah areas like the airport or the North of Beirut ? Of course, that is disproportionate. And despite your nonsensical statement, a lot of non Hezbollah areas and neighborhoods have been bombed by Israel. Don't tell us someone will be fine from 2000 miles away
As for the suggestion that Lebanon should have disarmed HEzbollah, if Israel could not disarm Hezbollah in 20 years of occupation, how could the much weaker Lebanese army ? What an idiotic statement
Dear Anonymous,
original_jeff's message made perfect sense. What is idiotic is your apparent argument that Lebanon was unable to comply with terms of the peace agreement requiring disarmament of Hezbollah and stationing of Lebanese forces in the south. It was their responsibility to do so! They failed!
What happens when you fail? You lose the opportunity to determine your own destiny.
"a lot of non Hezbollah areas and neighborhoods have been bombed by Israel." No kidding! Does Hezbollah refrain from entering into any part of Lebanon they choose, from using airports, sea ports, highways? Israel is facing a terrorist group that can pound their 3rd largest city with missiles. To solve this problem they now have to go into Lebanon and remove this capability. It will be messy. Better that the Lebanese would have cleaned their own house.
Dear Anonymous,
original_jeff's message made perfect sense. What is idiotic is your apparent argument that Lebanon was unable to comply with terms of the peace agreement requiring disarmament of Hezbollah and stationing of Lebanese forces in the south. It was their responsibility to do so! They failed!
What happens when you fail? You lose the opportunity to determine your own destiny.
"a lot of non Hezbollah areas and neighborhoods have been bombed by Israel." No kidding! Does Hezbollah refrain from entering into any part of Lebanon they choose, from using airports, sea ports, highways? Israel is facing a terrorist group that can pound their 3rd largest city with missiles. To solve this problem they now have to go into Lebanon and remove this capability. It will be messy. Better that the Lebanese would have cleaned their own house.
What is idiotic is your apparent argument that Lebanon was unable to comply with terms of the peace agreement requiring disarmament of Hezbollah and stationing of Lebanese forces in the south. It was their responsibility to do so! They failed!
Lebanon lacks the capability to stop Hezbollah. To say they failed is supremely stupid. They never had the ability to do so.
o kidding! Does Hezbollah refrain from entering into any part of Lebanon they choose, from using airports, sea ports, highways? Israel is facing a terrorist group that can pound their 3rd largest city with missiles. To solve this problem they now have to go into Lebanon and remove this capability. It will be messy. Better that the Lebanese would have cleaned their own house.
Yup, people like you always see killing of innocent civilians as messy. Any group that kills civilians and calls it messy (Ehther its hezbollan or the Israelis) are terrorists.
Your other comments are totally nonsensical too. HEzbollah can smuggle in arms it likes across the Bekaa valley from Syria. Attacking Lebanese airports is just a form of collective punishment.
To your fevered mind, when Israel attacks civlians, it is purely jsutified. Bah -- you are a terrorist sympathizer yourself.
Thanx Lebanese...How are your relatives???WHat are they saying abt situation???
Ram, hey, thanx dear, Were hoping she arrives safely...
Dubai Sunshine, its a shame, that after so many years of war, and after so many years of rebuilding this happens to Lebanon...
Jeff, I think my sister is fine up in the north...And abt disarming Hezbollah, well I dont think that the use of force is a solution...
Jaylin, Thanx for your sentimnets...We are all hoping and praying this will end soon...Enough bloodshed!!!
To all the anons, there is no justification for whats happening right now...Even if its for removing hezbolla's weapons, this is not a way for civilized people to act...Maybe the question here, are they civilized???And Im talking abt both parties...Many innocent people got killed because of the selfishness political entities...Selfishness and stupidness...
hello NIW.. been reading your blog for a while, but have never posted any comment.. i decided today will be the day. LOL. by the way, i really really hope the bloodshed in iraq will stop soon(but judging from the situation there, who knows how long will it take?)
i am becoming as neurotic as you, as my fiancee's mood is going up and down everyday with the situation in baghdad, his hometown. after fleeing the country a few years ago, now he suddenly become hopeless with everything and told me he wants to go back to baghdad and spend the last few days with his family(he expects to lose his life there).
how could i not be neurotic? well, in fact i am heart-broken. and worse still, i could not even talk(face to face)him out of his insane plan, because we are in different countries now.
what can i do? i guess i could only wish that things will be ok soon and then the family will be able to flee.
else, i might well have lost my finacee, to the bloodshed and the sectarian and those insane killers out there.
last but not least, i wish your sister will be home safely..
don't stop blogging.. your blog is my sanctuary.
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