they use
Palestine
for target practice
the arms dealers
and the twin
empires
they prepare
us for their atrocities
with coded
words and bland
assurances
100 snipers
train their bullets
again(st)
2 million pinned
in an occupied
hell hole
the massacre
of children is
necessary
they say
the prisoners
would not
be calm
and with this twist
of a lie
they erase
decades erase
years erase
months and days
of persistent
crushing
the very people
who should know better
don’t
we carry our holocaust
with such determination
and yet
how easily we forget
we were the prisoners
not so long ago
we claim warsaw
we claim uprising
and now, now,
now
we have become
our own
miserable nightmare
experimenting the
latest weaponry
of war
on fenced in
old men, pregnant
women, toddlers
mutilating
the humanity of our
neighbor and
our own
as we arm
the world
and fill beyond
overflowing the pockets
and prayers
of predators
I don’t understand why God would cry. If He (She?) is upset about something then let Him get up off His backside and put it right. He is all-powerful, after all. It is only we mortals who need to cry when we feel especially powerless.
MSNBC Morning Joe, this morning, dissing Trump for abandoning Syria to Iran, Russia, ISIS; he acknowledges we don’t want to be the world’s policeman as we’ve been in Iraq, Afghanistan–not a word about neocons or Israel. Nothing about #Gaza turkey shoot of non -violent occupation protesters….