“I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.” (Genesis 6:13)
Find something you love:
A girl or a boy,
A wife or grandma,
Your favourite doll.
Something beautiful, useful,
Venerable, vulnerable:
That can burst
Into flames
In a heartbeat
In the raining fire
Take them to the boat
Bring everything
You can fit
Into your little bag
Be ready to sail
At the drop of a hat
In a New York minute
Escape that scorched earth
Still ringing with
The tumult of killing
And stench of race-hate
A never ending
Un-winnable war
Where victor and vanquished
Are equally shamed
In their various ways
(Though the death-toll
Tells a different score)
And start again,
In God's grace.
All God wants
Is for you
To start again,
To be cleansed.
Go somewhere safe
(Hopefully warm,
A gentle reminder of home)
Far from the
Maddening bombs
Remember
Your loved ones
What you have lost
Though you may mend
The scars will remain
Listen, can you hear
The god of all things
Sing:
Flee the fiery flood,
Begin again, again, again.
Comment: With great regret, the only future I can see for ordinary Palestinians seems to be a coordinated humanitarian mass migration. Anyone who cares for the civilians should be trying to get them out of Gaza (and soon the West Bank). The civilians are trapped by and between liberal wishful thinking and the long standing occupation, apartheid and now this genocide, that will only continue whilst the Western powers support it. The fact that many extremist Israelis would like such a migration is not the point when thinking of this from the perspective of the non-combatants.
Many of the leaders on both sides there are extremists, that see the Palestinian's suffering as merely tools for their political ends (aka terrorists).
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