Our imaginations no longer function
The gears clogged
By great heaps of amputated limbs.
*****
Visiting doctors cannot believe the savagery.
Gutted children
Assure them it is true.
*****
“Destroy all hospitals, destroy all schools,
Destroy all neighborhoods, destroy all life”
Chant the hollow ones.
*****
There is a hole in the world
Through which can be heard
The approach of howling hordes.
*****
We would like to think
That people collapse like bombed buildings
When their souls get up and leave.
But they continue to stand upright
Their steel eyes never blinking
Smug grins welded to their jaws.
*****
Picture a beach, and children flying kites.
Picture killer drones.
Picture small corpses and red sand.
*****
Words inscribed
On every speck of Gaza dust:
“Remember us.”
