Do you care?

They say today, that we’ll vote better tomorrow

Well choose someone who won’t bring such sorrow

And as the debate on which candidate will scrape less at our consciousness

another ten children die.

I lie awake asking why is genocide happening before our eyes and we still lie about the efficacy of these systems

They

Made doctrines saying never again and then

My friend..

they did it again

They began a campaign of terror on the heels of the last and they’re attempting to end it all in one big white phosphorous blast.

I ask…

Do we have time for the next election before the blood in Gaza turns to ashes and silent wind as it whistles the haunting tune of children sacrificed for a game played by grown men who would never let you get away with the same.

I try

To refrain from screaming as I walk down streets that for some reason aren’t teeming with protestors

I scroll my feed and encounter get ready with me’s and I think of the mother who died days after throwing a birthday party for her daughter beneath the cacophany of bombs that had become the harrowing soundtrack of their lives

Perhaps they imagined them to be fireworks

Escaped into dreams for a second never knowing if in the next moment, their happy picnic would become a grave.

I can’t save them, alone. I need you to care

too

I need you to see their humanity and believe that it can’t end, not like this.

Not ever.

The Palestinian people have continued to persist, everyday,despite the world powers constant intent to make them give in.