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Poetry
Where Were You
A Poem
When the bombs dropped
And the children’s voices were silenced eternally
When the buildings collapsed
And generations were crushed indefinitely
When the water was cut off
And slow suffocation was ordered purposefully
When the lies were created
And believed to be true internationally
When governments put a price on Palestinian lives
And supported genocide intentionally
When you had a chance to say something
But you chose silence clearly
When you see unprecedented violence
And you chose blindness perpetually
When the truth was in front of your face
And you chose to live obliviously
When history wrote itself with the blood of the innocent and oppressed
Yet there were those of us who chose to see
We are determined to sit here screaming with tears in our eyes and standing in solidarity
“FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA, PALESTINE WILL BE FREE.”
Where were you…
During the Palestinian genocide of 2023