palestine

I must write about Palestine. 

Their suffering is huge and unjust.

After we said never again,

we are watching it happen all over again

just different players playing the roles.

Yes Hamas was wrong. but two wrongs don't make anything right.

Is this just a story of growing up,

that if you are bullied as a child you will grow to be a bully? 

Is this just a primal fight for territory and supremacy among lions for the same spare savannahs?  

Palestine and Palestinians are being crushed underfoot,

their homes being made unlivable,

their schools and hospitals being destroyed,

their entrances and exits blockaded so no water food fuel or medical supplies can pass 

being asked to flee from north to south in a matter of hours 

then bombed in the south. 

now asked to flee from south to further south in another few hours. 

Openly calling for all countries to open and accept them into their lands so zionists can whoop their war cries around the strung heads of the vanquished. 

This game has been played before. 

Here, we watch 

waiting for gov sanctioned ways of responding, 

for a team of men and women in white to be the singular voice of 5 million people.

The irony. 

Life is complex

you want thinking individuals, 

but only those who think the way you determine safe, 

you want to make the box bigger, your concession, but insist we stay within those lines. 

Woe is the day the power  

here turns from white to grey to black

We will have no mechanisms to fight back

We will be crushed 

like dust 

Perhaps we have always only ever been dust