Phosphorus Palms

2/28/2025

if we are to die

then put us to death

don't play with your prey

until the last breath

if we are to fight

then fight us like men

don't shoot at our kids

and silence our pen

if you want our land

then stop dropping bombs

like you'd take craters

with phosphorus palms

if you want to lie

on why you must kill

then buy your own tale

or no one else will

and what if the way

you treated the poor

reaches your own kind

then what was it for?

and what if one day

you stir in your bed

and find you can't get

us out of your head?

(image credit: Mohamed Fsili)