Look to the Stars
When you look to the stars, what do you see? Do you see satellites or do you see rockets?
When you look to the stars, what do you see?
Do you see satellites or do you see rockets? If rockets,
do they fly or do they fall,
— take us to the moon or
— blast your homes and schools and hospitals? If satellites,
do they fly or do they fall,
— beam human connection or
— misinformation and propaganda and hate?
Food is left on my dinner plate
— while children starve in Gaza;
— I scrape it into the trash with a pang of regret
— that I cannot transport it to them,
where the storms are not rain, not wind, not thunder,
— but rockets and rubble and rage.
There's no justice in a genocide state
— hear the strength of their broken lungs
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