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a poem for Palestine

i put on my headphones to listen to music,

and i don’t enjoy it.

i have food on my plate to eat,

and i don’t enjoy it.

i have water running from my tap to drink,

and i don’t enjoy it.

i have medicine for a cough,

and i don’t enjoy it.

i have a bed to sleep in,

and i don’t enjoy it.

i scroll tiktok to see people complain about boycotts,

and i don’t enjoy it. 

i see Palestinian business being burned down in my neighbourhood,

and i don’t enjoy it.

i see people complaining of protests,

and i don't enjoy it.

how can i, a person who lives in such luxury, enjoy my life, when citizens of Gaza are being tortured and murdered, in plain daylight, for the world to see. 

how can i turn on the lights in my house, sleep in my bed, eat the abundance of food and enjoy it, when citizens of Gaza are not afforded this right. 

how can i sit by as hate crimes are being carried out across continents towards innocent people. 

how can i stand by a genocide when i’ve said countless times that i would never see this happen again. 

how can we as a world stand by a genocide when we have collectively made a promise that this would never happen again. 

how can we as a world not only stand by but aid in the genocide of innocent people when we promised this would never happen again, when we put structures in place to ensure that this would not happen again.

one is too many, two is too many, but eighteen thousand seven hundred is certainly too many. it is not too late and it will not be too late until we call it a history that we are ashamed of. 

how can we as a world look back and be ashamed of actions we took but not be more ashamed when the actions are repeated in front of our eyes.