Blood On Your Hands
My heart is heavy, my eyes are wet,
My chest sinks deeper into the chair.
I light a candle for each lost soul to be guided home.
First it's one small fire, then it's fifty,
Increasing every second, to the size of wildfires.
Till the fires are innumerable, demands unable to be met,
Lives lost comparable to each strand of lost hair.
Injured children, orphaned children, all alone.
"There is blood on your hands, you are guilty,"
Drive the narrative, keep your cowardice, keep your liars.
My ears ring with suffocating news,
My voice shatters, unable to speak.
I pray for each individual’s safety, I pray for their hope,
"Will god even accept my prayers if I don’t believe in them?"
I look at people, hurting, other people, killing eachother,
Violence, apartheid, murder and abuse.
People denied of basic human rights that they seek,
Instead their loved ones are killed, leaving the rest to cope.
Missile after missile, limb after limb. Innocents left overwhelmed,
"There is blood on your hands, you are murderers."
My nose imagines the smell of burning flesh,
My mind shudders at just the imagination.
"Think of the people who actually might be able to smell it"
The real people, living humans, the collateral damage.
People, forced to flee, killed when they tried to,
The millions of screams, million calls of distress.
Kill, kill, killed them till the obliteration of their population
Drowned in their own blood, as mud covered the pit.
The injustices being committed, this is an outrage,
How you burnt their flags to put yours up, white and blue.
"There is blood on your hands, you are guilty,"
"There is blood on your hands, you are murderers."
"There is blood on your hands, blood of the innocents."
"There is blood on your hands, just wait till it's your own."
"There is blood on your hands and you cannot wipe it off."
For some time now, I have been overwhelmed by the amount of violence and just pure evil acts being committed against innocent Palestinians by the idf, and it’s just too much. I needed to express myself somehow, so I decided to put my thoughts into words.
