ERIC MIYENI

I will not speak for Palestine
 
I will not speak for the Palestinian
For he has engaged his beautiful voice
To whisper, to speak, to shout, to scream
For the world to know his resilient spirit
 
I will not walk for the Palestinian
For she has raised each of her feet
To carry her children beyond the reach
Of the forever expanding, insatiable Israel
 
I will not fight for the Palestinian
For he has punched above his weight
For more than seventy-five years and refused to fall
So that we could see that his enemy is our enemy
 
I will not cry for the Palestinian
For each teardrop he sheds runs into a river of blood
To expose his bloodthirsty stalkers
And now we know their names
 
I will not die for the Palestinian
For whenever she has fallen in death
A billion spirits around the world have risen
To raise their voices and say: ”Stop the genocide!”
 
I will speak with the Palestinian
For her words are my words, and so are her screams
I will walk with the Palestinian
For his amputated legs are my cut off limbs
 
I will fight with the Palestinian
For her victory belongs to me and you
I will cry and die with the Palestinian
For the Palestinian is me and I am the Palestinian
 

21 December 2023

The A B C of it all
 
The awful arrogance of it all. 
The bloodstained bullets of it all. 
The contemptuous cruelty of it all. 
The depraved degeneracy of it all. 
The egotistical emptiness of it all. 
The frightening ferocity of it all. 
The grotesque godlessness of it all. 
The heartless horror of it all. 
The imperial impunity of it all. 
The jarring jaggedness of it all. 
The knuckleheaded killings of it all. 
The lugubrious larceny of it all. 
The morbid monstrosity of it all. 
The numbing nastiness of it all. 
The obnoxious obscenity of it all. 
The palpable psychopathy of it all. 
The qualmless quickness of it all. 
The repugnant rabidity of it all. 
The supremacist savagery of it all.
The terrifying tastelessness of it all. 
The unyielding ugliness of it all. 
The virulent vileness of it all. 
The wailing widows of it all. 
The exacerbating xenophobia of it all. 
The yelling youths of it all.
The zombie-like zealotry of it all. 
 
God help us all.
 
God help Palestine.
 

10 June 2025