Conversational Zeitgeist

By: Rami Naamna


wounded by anniversary, formed 15 days from writing

I question the lack of public outrage on the length of this genocide

The last 76 years there has never been such thing as siding

Still you question legitimacy of Palestinian cries

I question complicity sat between you and I

I am concerned with the lack of urgency when an ethnicity will die

There blood isn’t red 40

These are innocent people with innocent lives

So why do you fail to mention your stance on social media?

Why do you fail to divest from corporations who gas them like helium?

Not healing them, war crimes on intoxication

Appeal to them, in toxing their nation

Native to them, yet you fund all these organizations

That are Zionist in nature

I question whether you wager

Between your rights and wrongs like humans do, your moral compass shook

Because the eastern hemisphere is clouded with conflict but look

You can’t ruin your aesthetic to identify the loss of lives

You aren’t knowledgeable on politics, you won’t learn the reason why

Even if your existence is political, your imagery isn’t

If more people joined a protest our reach wouldn’t be finite

And yet I ask you, how are you able to sleep soundly at night?

when they kill and cause outrage

then kill the outraged to silence

then bomb displaced citizens so the only sounds

can be of shrieks, death and terror

i employ you ask the question, will colonialism live forever?

I’m tugging both sides of the rope, I can’t choose

The average citizen seems clearly uneducated

It would be selfish of me to hang myself with the rope like noose

But I further employ that you fully digest this question

How many of you will post about the genocide after you read this poem?

How many of you will have dug deeper in the knowledge of politics and informed yourself on the world?

The ghosts reckoning might’ve come and we may have turned a blind eye

I only pray they forgive us for the bliss when our ignorance rise


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