By Jaime Malmstrom
I stand here in anger Frustration hysteria Repeat Images of horrors Continuously invade my sleep Absorb the trauma from my device Grief in my conscienceness Will not suffice As colossal atrocities ensue Infinitely nauseated what can I do Gut punch defeated Blood boiling Rage is fierce Thoughts of devastation Destruction their screams pierce I sob Agony floods my mind Every waking moment My soul aches for them My heart breaks for them Will we ever feel peace again That ideal seems so far beyond existence Not as cruel dictators Under the facade of Democracy seek their misguided vengeance All must suffer for the resistant acts of a few Hate speech abhorrent rhetoric Is all that they spew It's calculated... It's immorality It's inhumanity Zero integrity Sheer insanity It's their reality Incessant suffering Lies propagating Minds manipulating War crimes violating Bombs detonating Bullets penetrating Massacres accellerating Continuous debilitating Relentless obliterating Exhaustion perpetuating Pain excruciating Human beings terminating Massively annihilating Children beg make it stop Do you not hear us?? Make it stop The world screams make it stop We get louder Make it stop they hear us Do nothing Lack consciousness Morally bankrupt They decide they must suffer More will die More women will die More men will die More children will die Innocence will die Weight of their merciless inaction Overwhelming Feel hopelessness Defeated Devastated Depressed Disheartened Disgusted Distressed Disconcerted Discouraged Unfathomable disdain For those responsible For this pain We come to witness the pure resilience That flows in Palestinian veins A decades long battle for the right to exsist The fight for their life they endlessly persist Perpetual strength Resolute They endured Brutal occupation No longer obscured We see you The world sees you You are the catalyst The world aligns with you We will stand for you Scream cease fire for you Root out evil for you Relentlessly seek Justice for you Demand liberation for you We see you I stand here now inspired OUR mission is clear We act in courage Rather than fear Promise to GAZA Until Palestine is FREE Only then we have PEACE
–Jaime Malmstrom read this poem March 24, 2024, at a fundraiser for the Palestinian American Medical Association. The event was held at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church in Kansas City, MO. (c) 2024, Jaime Malmstrom, Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International License.
