Thursday, 12 October 2023

#1381 - Gaza

 



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Gaza

 

can you tell me the difference?

tell me which heart’s darker?

 

who attacks and who defends?

 

masked man with machete

he’s hacking the child to pieces

 

the bomb falling on the kindergarten

and the kiddies blown to bits

 

can you please tell me which is terror?

 

who shines the light

who holds the truth?

 

whom to trust?

 

the sovereign state

the state to fail

 

the righteous

and those left to fend

 

I do not glory this

I do not celebrate

 

can you see the difference?

 

anger throwing stones

 

the prison under bombardment

it’s with all of the weapons money can buy

 

it’s all in the dark of my head to ask

 

it’s improvised, the war

will they, won’t they declare

 

was something given to you long ago?

is it written in an old book?

 

who’ll remember?

 

I do not justify

I don’t defend

 

the flags?

one waves

one burns

 

who is it drives whom into the sea?

 

whom should I believe about this?

 

the funded, the unfunded

consider whose friends

 

the gun at your head

from the one to die

 

the pinpoint target technician

coffee at the computer

 

which one is the terrorist?

which one’s the freedom fighter?

 

holy struggle!

 

tell me

who’s the fool here?

who’s wise?

 

there’s the present

and there’s the past

 

from terrible things

catastrophe

 

some say none of this is real

they don’t exist

they’re not who they say they are

 

I do not justify

I don’t defend

 

others remember something else

how does it work?

 

you can say that you don’t know where the bombs fall

you can say you don’t know whose throat you cut

 

I have trouble with this kind of idea

 

it’s personal, isn’t it?

 

anonymous

where truth’s eternal

 

who sings up in the clouds?

who burns down below?

 

who is sleepless in the rubble?

who plumps the pillow?

 

all these peoples of the book

and which are chosen?

who is not?

and how does the story end?

 

will you tell me whose loss harder?

life more precious?

 

every other animal fled

 

they say the land bleeds

 

who’s more martyred?

 

can you tell the difference?

which heart’s darker?

 

I do not justify

I don’t defend

 

was there ever a people could do no wrong?

 

is there ever a people at all?


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