By Desiree Fairooz
Illustration by Ruba Shawar
How many more?
How many more?
How many homes demolished,
How many trees uprooted,
How many walls to steal the sun, block the sky, hide the moon,
How many segregated buses,
How many taunted children,
How many mothers cradle their wombs against the barrel of a gun,
How many grieving grandmothers,
How many useless fishermen,
How many suffocating tunnels, poisoned waters and babies bloodied dead,
How many talks by Chomsky,
How many news stories read,
How many wars on Gaza watched from the comfort of your bed, before you
stand up for Palestine?