You're So Quiet…But #NeverAgainIsNow
a poem
you’re so quiet —
they slaughtered us again
ripped out babies from bellies
beheaded babies
wiped out entire families
there's a boy — a boy, you know
who went on a jog
he’s the same age as my eldest
and now an orphan
he buried his entire family today
~bless Ariel Zohar~
families torn apart…ripped apart…from one another…ripped apart into butchered pieces…ripped apart fetus…ripped apart…
I was just in Israel this summer
for the first time in 19 long years
the age of some of those at the rave
the last time I was in Israel
they were the children of Israel
like the kids I taught at Kibbutz Amiad in the north
they are all of our children
all of our cousins, all of our grandmothers
They burned down an old synagogue in Tunisia today
marked homes in Berlin with Jewish stars
university students dressed up as Jews at a protest
university students ripped down signs of…
