Questions on the Continuing War in Gaza

 

What difference: the oblivion of a newly born child

and it dead beneath a city’s rubble?

And the child born on one side

of a fence and the other?

What difference: the grief of parents of fighters

and the grief of parents of children?

And the love of parents on one side

of a fence and the other?

What difference: the child who is voluble

and the child whose words are dead in the wreckage of its lungs?

And the longing to live on one side

of a fence and the other?

What difference: the bones that support a child

and those bones smashed to uselessness?

And the care needed on one side

of a fence and the other?