Remember.

Remember.

For Bisan, Motaz, Lama and Reem

Every adult and child who declared to be seen

May we hold your cause in these coming days

For you’ve shown the world what it means to be brave

What it means to breathe life even as it’s taken away

At day 467, let the records show:

The age where a genocide streamed live to our phones

Through Instagram reels and broken lenses

Where allegiancеs grew through posts and mentions

To the millions of us who took to thе streets

With cardboard and paint, rose to march every week

Our distance brings a strength of sorts

It’s up to us to hold their cause

To be free isn’t a passing phrase

It’s a clarity of mind and physical space

It’s the right to live in place.

If there’s one thing you do and nothing more

Know that - to remember is to hold

Remember for those wishing to forget

Remember for all the souls we haven’t met

Wherever you are remember

for peace

is the day where Palestine is truly free.

~ Love, Amahla