Bearing witness to
the barbaric annihilation
of Palestinian people,
and their lands
while Western powers
aid and abet the destruction,
and gaslight
the rest of the world,
all the while
filling their pockets
with the profits
of the war machine

There is no turning back,
no unseeing of
what fell into
the cellular memory
of bones,
into the dark depths
of ancestral
roots

no turning back
from seeing scores
and scores
of live images
of the depraved cruelty
of genocide

no turning back
from recognising
what the arrogant Western
colonising
mindset and actions
have perpetrated
with impunity
for CENTURIES,
on indigenous peoples
and their soil, humanity’s soil,
all over the globe

no turning back
from all this,
here condensed,
concentrated
on a small group of human beings
on a tiny sliver of land
in just
116
interminable
days of horror,
in full view of anyone
with a cellphone
who has capacity
to look

This    has   got    to   STOP

(I have been rocked to my core.
I feel I have to do what I can to
help raise awareness,
help open people’s hearts,
help galvanise action,
help in any way I can – my small and necessary way,
to stop the western world to fund and participate in this GENOCIDE
and the ongoing oppression, marginalisation and colonisation of indigenous peoples all over the world.
I am sitting with what this will look like for me, right where I am, here in Auckland NZ)

01/02/2024