I just need people to understand, as this poem has been circulating where I can see it since October 2023, that it was first published in August 2014
Wrote a letter to a local newspaper about the plight of Palestinian children in the 1980s. The 1980s. This horror is older than so many Palestinians now. ☹️
Ah, that art supercedes time, yet again, and we grok art in firmly in our own time, yet again
Beautiful 😔
Reading this paints such a strong mental picture of loss and it hurts like a wound in the heart, I'm so sorry to all those suffering and all those children who deserve lives of peace but had it stolen, to those who've grown up continuing to face oppression for their whole lives, to those lost.
Wow. I'm usually not one for poetry but this hit hard. Thank you for sharing and for the added context.
Heartbreaking and beautiful. Thanks, Amal.