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Tuesday, November 14, 2023

what cannot be repressed

Thinking about the study you mentioned

About disturbing images that trouble us

That how well you sleep affects your ability

To be able to repress intrusive thoughts


But the carnage in Gaza is qualitatively different

A trauma horrible beyond description

An ongoing massacre in full view

An undeniably racist war crime genocide


Even though I avoid looking at the rubble

I think about the people buried alive

I hear their screams of agony and grief

As the bombs keep falling day after day 


The desperate urgency to stop it grips me

Feeling the tightness in my chest

But the longer it goes on the more support

Gathers up worldwide as never before


Exposing the naked reality of occupation 

Of a land stolen from the native inhabitants

Forced out into squalid refugee camps

Imprisoned under an apartheid legal system


The brutality meant to crush all resistance

Revealing that everyone in Gaza is a hostage

Demanding our intervention in whatever way we can

That is what cannot be repressed