Reporting from Gaza with Palestinian Poet Ahmed Sarsour

Yes, you stayed silent too!

I heard the echo of it in the bombs they dropped on a child of two!

Indeed, you said you didn't want to be a part of this,

but they heard your silence and tore apart homes too!

You can walk and see limbs and bodies all over the streets.

Please look away as they continue to ethnically cleanse these scenes.

They take some to their skin bank others to bury in dust, rubble, and sand!

You know by heart that Gaza is free,

but you chose to believe what they've recited over the years.

How unjustly they've been treated,

the Holocaust they survived.

They have every right to defend themselves from apartheid!

But as they do, they reflect it on us. How can you be so blind?

Are you going to stay silent too?

As they kill more people far away from you?

You said you will fight for all human rights,

but it seems you do not care about my people's rights.

So if you may, just turn your eyes away,

I know you have paid for this genocide to be on play.

We don't need your help,

We don't need your slogans.

We will fight ourselves, spread the horrors unspoken.

So keep on staying silent, keep on paying them taxes,

We won't surrender until we are done,

So run, run, run.

They are coming for your contradictions and your gun.

You will witness it with your eyes, they will pay the price!

Once they are done, you will all be left with none!