Here We Stand, Humanity. Poem by Sandra Kavanagh Josefsson

Here we stand, Humanity,
and all that entails,
while the Palestinians are suffering
and our 'leaders' fail,
in everything they should do,
But don't do and why is that?

That is the question,
that is forefront in our minds.
Why is nothing done
to stop these atrocities?
Resolutions that bind,
are seemingly nonbinding to some.

Why do we have organisations
that are meant to aid?
Yet do absolutely nothing
to relieve the blockades.
Why have them at all?

We have seen the suffering,
the appalling desecration of a people
and we have tried to get our 'leaders' to listen,
but our words fall on deaf ears.
There is no wisdom.

They are complicit in murder.
They are complicit in genocide.
They cannot whitewash their inactivity.
Those who do nothing are complicit
because of their passivity.

They cannot pretend
that in the realms of this universe,
that they will not be punished for their crimes.
They can lie to themselves,
but one day they will get their retribution
and everything that it defines.

No amount of money or power will save them.
They have sold their souls to the highest bidder.
They can now live with the consequences
of that choice,
Or reconsider.

Here we stand, Humanity,
and all that it entails,
while the Palestinians
are suffering and our 'leaders' fail,
In everything they should do,
But don't do and why is that?

Verse: Sandra Kavanagh (c) .