still my heart breaks
i cry every single day
i am a human being
what human isnt crying
reading the news coming out of palestine
reading the news coming out of haiti
out of burma
out of anywhere enduring catastrophic violence nostr:note1gtsu6f7n9mn5vdkaarc8lcea7gw0dy79qr3lea92f7mlk45zs6js8vqzq4
not my choices
are not my problems
if i wanted to be mayor
id be a mayor of somewhere by now
do i own rockets
am i an elected leader of anywhere
i cant even afford a tent on my own cash
& so palestinian little ones die instead
as they have been
cos i really really really dont want to
not a single centimeter of me wants to
you think i want to carry the cost of innocent israeli little ones?
are you kidding me that that is the best the whole world can do?
is that how utterly mad the world is?
the only option, the best we can do?
is ~more~ killing? ~more~ murder?
murder as rescue? murder as self defense?
is it really going to take Iran & Hezbollah?
can everyone not see the cost of this on everyone? the cost on all our kids?
how hard is it to follow south africa's deterimination?
to stop arms sales?
how are they even still breathing from all the heartache & devastation?
knowing that still breathing still means being one of the lucky ones? compared to every palestinian who is not
how are anti-zionist jewish americans supposed to feel?
how is little ramallah supposed to feel?
some residents there can say all twenty of their family members were murdered in less than half a year
are they supposed to feel welcome at a theater in nyack? a restaurant?
palestinian american residents
american palestinian residents
how are palestinians supposed to feel
when israeli flags lined the entirety of mainstreet in nyack