Evacuate
They tell me to evacuate my home, my land.
As if my home has legs;
As if the olive tree, that for decades rooted deep,
Will up and follow;
As if the echoes of my mother’s lullabies
Will pack their bags and draft with us to the exile.
- Americans find it easier to mourn the death of free speech than the death of 60,000 Palestinians
- Mainstream obituaries are erasing Pope Francis’s deep concern for Palestine