Grief
The silent but deadly
Killer of all joy
Cutter of flowers
Uprooted from their warm beds
Grief
Stricken by the chill
Disturbed, shocked to the root
Broken concrete and brown dirt
Grief
Grief
Trumpeting with each new hour
Upon each new spring
Flocking together
Our miserly company
Unable to find solace
Grief
Indebted, but unable to pay back.
A role you created
Bringing meaning to life
Like God, but not god, but My God
Grief
From your womb, from your seed
Grief
Only possible because of you
Grief
Now eliminated
Now emancipated
Now ending
Now trying to begin
Now failing
Now trying to begin, again
Now failing, again
Grief
Grief
We made plans yesterday
Grief
My best man yesterday
Grief
A blow to the head, heart, and groin
Yesterday, Fucking Grief
My baby fucking grief
My body fucking grief
My mind - fucking grief
This world - fucking grief
Hamas attacked Israel last week
Hungry, angry, and uprooted
Israel was created by the Brits
Supporting the Zionist movement
Efforts to provide sanctuary for Jews
those nazi Basterds
1923 Palestine was the chosen land
Having once been conquered by David
The One True King,
Zazu, a tenderly woven nest
A basket to keep all his eggs in
A fertile land, buzzing with bees
Rich with milk and honey
Plenty for the many habibi
Plenty for aini, albi, haya
Plenty for the new
Walled off
An early form of gentrification
Left the land of Palestine a new hue
Revolting Arabs
Revolting Arabs
Revolting Afghans
Cold War Heros
Like Vietnam Vets
Homeless and starving
because of some Washington brats.
Revolting Iranians
ISIS
IS what it IS
An offshoot of Mohammad's Dynasty
The Saudis lay claim to
Allah yahmina
God protect us
We are all your children
Nahn jamiean 'atfaluk
We babble and babble to no prevail
We rabble in the rubble of a broken HIStory
Lacking sovereignty, lacking security
Lacking silver linings, werewolves at Mineh
Ethereal beings stubbornly unswayed
Growing more righteous with each passing day
Growing our grieving, greatening our sorrow,
A hundred years lost in the desert, whilst raining
missiles from another land.
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