Resilient olive trees as symbols of endurance amid destruction in Gaza

Sumud - Where Olive Trees Stand -Lyrics

Verse 1
We watch our screens, words choke to ash—
another Tuesday night in the empire of witness
This piercing absence in twilight rubble
where even the architecture bleeds
Bodies sprawled like spilled paint on stone
Wars bare hands pull the aorta out
From what were once living homes

Verse 2
While grain molds in distant silos
Markets auction tomorrow's breath
like mothers selling their milk
The same fingers that count profit,
soft as a lover's touch,
Dial coordinates for dawn strikes
Call it necessary, call it progress

Chorus:
My brother I sing for you
My sister I sing for you
But my tears and love
My love and tears are not enough for you

Verse 3
Yet there beyond all this destruction
Stand the olive trees in their multitudes—
ancient teachers holding court
Roots drinking ash, transforming death
into something the earth can use
Their leaves flutter silver prayers
To testify what they have withstood

Chorus:
My brother I sing for you
My sister I sing for you
But my tears and love
My love and tears are not enough for you

Verse 4
Through raw wounds of living rage
They blossom into colour, into life
In shades of homely love that will
Reset this turn of all centuries
For the coming of real difference

Chorus:
My brother I sing for you
My sister I sing for you
But my tears and love
My love and tears are not enough for you






Sumud - Where Olive Trees Stand

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