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Nelly Bryce's avatar

This poem is staggeringly good and important. The whole post. Thanks Rebecca

Mahdi Meshkatee's avatar

I don’t know which is more heartbreaking: the things happening or the way they are dealt with. These extreme atrocities highlight the gap between simply seeing and knowing, and unfortunately enhances this feeling of sadness that the geopolitical violence some of us have been through will never truly be appreciate by the other.

Rebecca Calles Rijsdijk's avatar

And how some people cannot see their humanity in others. It's devastating.

Mandi's avatar

Yes, and we need to stay with that anger, because that is real. The anger and the grief and telling the truth in the face of denial, greed and atrocities. Thank you again Rebecca

A Ikram Poetry | Healing 🍉's avatar

I remember my grandmother used to say " evil will rule the world not because it got stronger but because of the silence of those who are called human"

rena's avatar

"It is white supremacy with better branding."

Yes

Rebecca Calles Rijsdijk's avatar

It's always the same shit.

Noha Beshir's avatar

Thank you for writing this. I agree with it all.

Rebecca Calles Rijsdijk's avatar

Thank you for reading it Noha.