Tag: change
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De-Sense-atized
Desensitized, So incentivized, It’s all privatized, Lies revitalized, To meet an end. They tell us: Don’t trust your eyes, Don’t see them die, They are enemies, Their deaths are digitized. They say forget: That they are children, Starving beneath bomb lights. That they are mothers bereaved, having lost everyone to the fires at night. They…
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Destined
Born in the season of the earth, my legs were made for dirt. A sole and righteous son, I felt destiny’s weight from birth. The wagon wheel is pushed as sweat bleeds through my shirt. Such feelings that are brined, in these poems they are unearthed. And in this life of mine, like mighty Hercules…
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A Decision Made
How often ruled by decisions made, The child born into a holy land. The blue star on his forehead laid, Says he’s no beast, but born a man. And the other girl, she’s already two. Beyond a wall where olives grew. Black and green and white the hue, Rebellion in her heart imbued. The boy…
Writings by Samson Mousa 