graduation

and world perspective

they went in all yellow 
my favorite color 
bright sunny and happy 
cos play all day 

their second 6th grade graduation 
this one in ireland 
our new home as beautiful 
as the emerald green countryside 

weather - which i was warned about
has greeted us warmly 
the locals r shocked its been so nice
bright and cheery daily - unreal 

people swarming the sidewalks 
smiling outside of pubs in shorts 
holding a pint laughing 
a holiday of happiness 

infecting me with joy 
the skies have delivered 
caught me unprepared 
and forever grateful 

what i have found here is peace 
as the chaos continues worldwide 
i feel it in the distance 
looming dark clouds 

a storm is coming 
as we play chicken with the mid east
led by greedy myopic men 
who measure only in money 

ignoring humanity - basic decency 
in cruel criminal ways 
terrorizing everyone 
as we await the start of ww3

watching israel bomb and burn 
snipe and shoot survivors 
kill kids with abandon & impunity 
toddlers in their mothers arms

crying parents 
cradle their childrens bloody bodies 
one last time as the world looks on 
apparently unable to stop the horror 

we gather in record breaking numbers 
in a multitude of nations
with one message 
israel - stop the genocide 

the ethnic cleansing 
the inhumanity 
the blatant brutality 
is completely incomprehensible to all 

except bibi and his bunch 
the willful blindness unimaginable 
as we see image after image 
of starving humans 

like the liberation of holocaust camps
we wondered how did this happen 
only we watched it 
day after day in real time 

how could it get worse - we wondered 
and yet it has 
systemic annihilation 
truly beyond the beyond 

the cries of anti semetism
rendered irrelevant as we scream 
NO WE R ANTI GENOCIDE 
anti mass murder 

and how exactly can we expect 
"the most moral army" 
to recover from the treachery 
of just following orders

which won't work at The Hague 
and if there are any Palestinians left 
how will they survive their memories 
of being hunted and forgotten 

may there be a world healing 
perhaps too optimistic a prayer 
but it is mine today as yesterday 
always was - always will be 

may we all be able to see ourselves 
our actions and their consequences 
our rhyme and reason 
in every gods names - amen