Gaza

 A missile strike

turns day into night
and there's no longer power
to turn on the lights

in Gaza.

 

Missiles scream like a woman
in the pangs of labor.
Sirens scream warnings
mothers scream
in fear for their children
and children scream for their mothers
to make this rain of hatred
STOP!

There's no food to be found.
It sits in hundreds of trucks
that line entrances leading to Gaza
while children starve to death
in their mother's arms.

Mothers can't halt missiles
or manifest food
so they look in their children's hungry eyes
and lie;
"Shhhh go back to sleep.
Tomorrow, tomorrow you will eat.
Everything will be okay.
I am here with you."

 

At night, children dream of sprouting wings
to fly their families to safety.
But in daylight
they are one winged butterflies
still endeavoring to fly.

 

Israel has destroyed beautiful, sacred temples

and historic sites

flattened every university.

they have removed the Palestinian's past,

stolen their present,

and destroyed their future.

With backing from the United States
Israel has become a tyrant.
Gaza is now a concentration camp.
Hitler has risen up, this time
under the yellow Star of David.

Israel and Hamas point at each other
they might as well be pointing in a mirror.
Who is to say why this hatred commenced?
It is a conflict that goes back to Genesis.

But Israel can't
end hatred with bombs.
When scattered glass and broken bricks
are all that remain-
from those ruins will shoot
an even stronger hate.