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FALLEN SOLDIER IN THE MIDDLE EAST And we, what are we? Just wandering souls Like foundations of crumbling houses And I wished that you’d be An olive tree That blossoms and promises fruit That bears within it a riddle Of ripe and age. And I wished that you’d be A palm tree Rooted by the banks of flowing rivers. And I know they’ll all come now To praise and persuade… But all I wish for is that you be That you be Here -Ada Aharoni- This poem is translated from Hebrew and mainly it’s a poem about war. The speaker is a Jewish or Arab father. The father dedicates this poem to his son who died at the war in the Middle East. He is mourning the death of his son. If his son is still alive, he could be a great man. But now he is dead and the father cries for him. Now he feels like nothing important in his life because his son has died. The father doesn’t care about other people’s thoughts of his son was a good soldier. He only cares (and hopes/wishes) that his son is there with him. In this poem we can find many figurative language. In the first stanza we can see metaphors when the father compares his life (or his soul) as a house. Now that his son is dead, his soul (hi