Katyusha, Katyusha

An award-winning British poet immortalizes Gaza’s pain…

(pictured - Katyusha rockets, deadly yet almost beautiful)

Katyusha, Katyusha

by Sean O’Brien

Katyusha, Katyusha,
Arrow of fire:
Kingdom Come, is it
Below or above?
Choked in a tunnel
With morphine and bread,
Or charred in the wreck
Of an olive grove?
Katyusha, Katyusha,
Spear of desire,
Are there green pastures,
A brave desert rose,
Or must it be prison
With pillars of flame?
Katyusha, Katyusha,
A grave, or a rose?
Katyusha, Katyusha,
God only knows.