I will not turn away
from seeing babies, the children,
become orphans,

I will not turn away
from seeing
women, men,
the strong ones,
the weak ones
the old wise ones,
ripped open,  torn to pieces
their homes no longer,
sometimes their ancestral graves
ripped up and desecrated,
their families, 
sometimes whole generations,
under the rubble.

I will not turn away
from seeing them fleeing
from here
to there and back again
followed, hunted down,
bombed,  shelled,  shot
crushed, burned,
obliterated

No longer ‘just’ occupied,
with no rights
with no protection
with no say
over their own lives,
over their home land,
for 75 years,
by some colonial decree,
but now
also starved
thirsty
without medicine
or warm clothes,
relentlessly pursued
and slaughtered
by the tens.of.thousands…..

I will not turn away
from seeing and hearing
the utter depravity
of a demonic mission
to massacre a whole people,
aided and abetted
by the wealthiest,
most power hungry,
colonialist
‘civilisations’ in the world

I will not turn away
from seeing and feeling
what the courageous,
heroic journalists
within Gaza
desperately need us to see
and hear, and feel..
because no-one else
is telling their stories

I will not turn away,
so i can feel my broken heart
guide me
to do what we,
all of us individuals,
can do
each in whatever ways
we are able to do
together
in our thousands
world-wide,
to make sure
EVERYONE knows
We want this genocide
to STOP

I will not turn away…
and yes,
it is breaking my heart,
daily
it hurts,
a lot,
but only a fraction
of how much
these bloody atrocities
are hurting the children
the women,
the men
of Palestine

#LastingCeasefireNow #freePalestine #stopsupplyingbombs