Fjall, haf og múr

Einar Ólafsson
14. október, 2023
20.04.2018. Malaka Border, Gaza Strip. Protesters sets tires on fire during the Great March of Return. The "Great March of Return", the protests demand that Palestinian refugees and their descendants be allowed to return to what is now Israel. Organization of the protests was initiated by independent activists, and has been endorsed and supported by Hamas, as well as other major factions in the Gaza Strip. It is supposed to last between 30 March (Land day) and 15 May (Nakba Day, the “Day of Catastrophe”, the foundation of Israeli State). Most of the demonstrators at the tent camps hundreds of meters from the border demonstrated peacefully, but groups of people approached the border, rolled burning tires towards the fence, and threw stones and Molotov cocktails at Israeli troops. The photographed scene was not influenced in any way.

Ég hef heyrt af múr
í fjarlægu landi,
ég lít til fjalla, ég lít til hafs.

Bak við fjallið býr systir mín,
handan hafsins býr bróðir minn.

Handan við bláma fjarlægðarinnar,
handan við bláma víðáttunnar,
handan við víðáttu frelsisins
hef ég heyrt af múr
reistum af manna höndum.

Ég klíf fjallið,
ég sigli yfir hafið.

Ég hef heyrt af múr
í fjarlægu landi
og vopnuðum vörðum.

Ég hef heyrt af fólki
handan múrsins,
handan ókleifra vopna.

Bak við múrinn,
handan vopnanna
búa bræður mínir,
búa systur mínar
svo fjarri og þó svo nærri.

2. desember 2012 — Í nóvember 2012 gerði Ísraelsher loftárásir á Gazasvæðið í Palestínu. Birtist í ljóðabókinni Í heiminum heima 2015.