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A Child in Gaza

Dreaming of leaving

       This rock above my

             Head

 

Dreaming of leaving

The thought you are dead

 

Dreaming of leaving

 

Going back to when I

played here, running up

the path mama mama

kissing your sweet forehead

 

now motionless and

       cold

 

Dreaming of leaving

 

                                 Not wishing to go

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GazaIsrael. Gaza

And so it goes on…

And so it goes

On

People protest

Against dead bodies

“They’re all terrorists

each and every one”

He says, they say

 

And so it goes on

 

The people are lost

Picking through rubble

Discovering their loved ones

Dead clothes

 

 

But the truth is being hidden

Sanitised by the news

The killing is not so awful

They plead

 

And so...

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GazabidenIsrael. GazaNetanyahufamineFree Palestine

What is evil

What now, what is evil?

I’m sure we can agree

if killing just one child is awful,

thousands more must be

evil’s outright apogee.

No problem pegging evil.

 

But how to deal with evil?

Find the men (we know

it’s mainly men). Pronounce those people

lowest of the low.

Blazon what they did, and show

those men to be pure evil.

 

Now, certain who is evil,

you’...

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wargood and evilIsrael. Gaza

There

There

 

  I’m not there

And neither are you

 

But we have all danced at festivals

Walked down the streets

Cooked food in our homes

 

I’m not there

                        And neither are they now…

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