a child in gaza prays to the air : will chocolate fall from the sky

a child in gaza prays to the air : will chocolate fall from the sky

easy to love : the dead or alive child 

will you believe the bones 

tired softness in the screams 

will you breathe what we cannot 

easy to love : the abused angels 

tender transfusions of light 

under the august moon 

children release a lullaby 

chocolate falls from the sky 

we are gaza 

earth’s soul lyric 

spirits know our names 

listen to the earth weep 

in our blood

easy to love : no other land but gaza 

children dance in the rubble of barbarism

and sing how david has become goliath a

people, nation, state has lost its way 

easy to love : a free palestine 

oh, israel 

trauma responses betray

the body terror with terror(isms) 

histories lessons unlearned 

easy to love : the songs of the dying

we are grievable 

empire’s follie : the genocide of a people 

children of palestine 

we are 

your breath

oh, israel 

madness of histories : occupied traumas 

zionism feeds its own phantasms 

playing gods : acting apartheids 

terror destroys its makers 

easy to love : a balm of gilead 

a free children 

of a 

a l h u r a f i l a s t i n 

chocolate falls from the sky 

easy to love : a lullaby 

our last breaths 

children of palestine 

occupied no more 

note 

“no other land but gaza” - fatma hassona.