I save nothing - 22/10/23

Art by Amelia M., Trinidad and Tobago

A collection of poems because it is all I can do. A critique of Israel’s occupation of Palestine and the genocide of the Palestinian people by Israel’s Defense Force. A reflection of how terribly we have failed the Palestinian people and how little control we had over that. A commentary of how the world has to watch helplessly as thousands of people are slaughtered. A collection of poems because it is all I can do.

I save nothing - 22/10/23

I wake

and two weeks have passed.

one of those months, I think.

hard pressed to remember much,

just eating and living and living,

gosh,

this living.

I collect the things,

the shoes

and the dirty socks,

I collect all my thoughts,

sort the responsibility I abandoned carelessly 14 days ago.

this must have been a rough down, I think.

I've read before that,

humans choose to be born,

that we wanted so badly to experience every emotion and every feeling and, that we are

everything experiencing itself.

I'm not sure why we think the world is beautiful.

We are its finest creation and its clearest mirror.

This is a place of terrible things.

We are terrible things.

When I look around me, I do not know what to save first,

in my dreams I see everything burn in the fire,

I save nothing, not even myself.

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