הלם קרב

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הלם קרב

Shell Shock

It's clear to me why I'm here,

Because of all that they did all those they took,1 I'm here only for them,

Far from home, I'm out of water but I don't feel like drinking anyway,

Got on the radio, said everything's okay - but it's not.

For a few days now I didn't talk with mom, they took my phone right when I got in,2

I slept an hour from the day before yesterday 'till today and yesterday I already dozed off at my post,

Me and the guys were born to pay the price because in the Knesset3 they don't learn the lesson,

You're strolling in the fields on saturday, and I'm reporting a flower4 here on the field.

Passing the time here on the battle field,

with black coffee that is less black than the situation,

Almog, my bro, is sitting with the Negev5 heavy on the back,

Send kisses, I have to wrap it up, we got called up.

At nights I write to Mom,

that her boy is a hero here on the front,

I'm still okay, don't cry now.

At nights I write to Mom,

Lying to her that I still didn't enter [Gaza],

I'm still okay, don't cry now,

Get out of the shock, shock -

Battle.6

Shock.

Battle.

My army is the most moral army in the world,

Door-knocking roof-knocking7,

You want to shoot? Ask for permission,

They shoot at you? Look for a mamad,8

They want to hate, they want a holocaust,

without the trains, without the rails,

It's true that on the outside I'm strong I'm a fighter but in my head,

I have many voices.

You're calling me "the Nazi", I gave the child the rest of my water,

instead of thanking me he gave me back a look with hate in the eyes,

I'm here to avenge the captivity of everyone that they kidnapped from home,

and you're here to behead the dove that offered you an olive branch.

And everybody's calling us "salt of the earth",

and no one knows what it actually means,

to want life but dance with death.

Death.

At nights I write to Mom...

They let me use WhatsApp for a few minutes,

from here I get back on the Namer.9

In the morning our house was hit by an ATGM,10

I was lucky, it was in the other room.

Our squad is hurt, we lost three,

but everybody wants to keep fighting.

Anyway, take care of my little brother,

tomorrow I'll send a letter first thing in the morning.

1. the October 7th massacre that Hamas commited, and the people they kidnapped - including babies, children, women and elderly
2. into Gaza
3. the Israeli parliment
4. a fallen soldier
5. light machine gun developed by Israel
6. in Hebrew "shell shock" is "battle shock", so it's a play on words
7. a term used by the IDF to describe its practice of dropping non-explosive or low-yield devices on the roofs of targeted buildings as a prior warning of imminent bombing attacks to give civilians time to flee the attack
8. a reinforced security room required in all new buildings by Israeli law
9. an Israeli armoured personnel carrier, a syllabic abbreviation of "Nagmash" and "Merkava"
10. anti-tank guided missile