Amor a Prueba de Bombas
Pablo Hasél
Love Bombproof
Abir lives in Gaza, she's another Palestinian girl
Who at 7 drew the corpses
Of children that Israel assassinates
She never had innocence
She saw her grandparents' house destroyed
Under the pretext that they were terrorists
Now she's 10, her father was also killed
But her mother tells her he's traveling
Sometimes she can't go to school because of the shots
She talks about revenge against those heartless
No one has told her to do it, it's just
Normal when they trample her people daily
She lies to her mother saying she's not afraid
But the tanks make her nervous all day
She has nightmares where she doesn't see dad again
If she knew they tortured him until he couldn't breathe
But there's something that makes her happy
There's a boy she likes at her school and she tries
To only think of him when panic invades her
And the cowardly Zionists lurk nearby
His name is Youssef and like almost every Palestinian child
He has family killed by this permitted holocaust
The infatuation is mutual, holding hands
They go home and fear seems like a thing of the past
They say when they grow up they'll marry in a free Palestine
It's the closing line of every love letter they write
It's the little beauty that Abir has left
She hates this situation but doesn't want to leave her country
She wants to fight for what's theirs
Honor the memory of the fallen even though sometimes
She only imagines herself thousands of kilometers away from Gaza
With Youssef, where their children don't suffer threats
One day she arrives at school excited but he's not there
The teacher cries, three more children are missing in class
She explains they died in a bombing
How could she keep it quiet if they were going to find out anyway
Anxiety leads Abir to the hospital, she can't accept
How cruel and ruthless Israeli barbarism is
She spends a week almost in a coma, when she wakes up
All she can think about is Youssef's smile and a rifle
From love to hate, there's a step
And they forced her onto the path
Of ending up being a martyr
Of the Palestinian armed struggle
