Invisible lines 

Appear by walls of separation, segregation 

Cake slices swallowed from

—open bellies and beheaded babies—

Moral army they say

A just cause they say

God’s children they say

Tell me, why do you hide heads of entangled babies on gavels?

Terrorism—genocide—war—

All spell “loot”

The plunder and killing blunder

The pillage and bodily spillage 

Stories inked in innocent blood

Invisible lines are choking

The stench of separation, stagnating

Staggering, struggling 

Under rubbles of artificial lines

Compressing, constricting

The rubber band boomeranging

Blasting in birthday bombs 

With death, the only guest

When bodies turn into weapons

Homes are lost

When weaponized bodies are defended against

All humanity is lost

Visible lines, the river to the sea

Ebbs of stillness pass

…babies, cats, dogs, mountain gazelles, ibex, wolves, fox, jekyll, deers, hamsters, bats, hedgehogs, mice, hares, rats, otters, badgers, hyrax, squirrels, boars, mongoose, lizards, snakes, women, men and creatures I do not know…

All lives lost in Palestine flow

Are we really all human?

The homo sapien curse against diversity

Class, crass, colour, category

The sea of separation

These invisible lines

The curse of our species

Genocide keeps my eyes wide

Ironically, ideas of humanity keep my heart ajar

I do not carry it with pride

For it has failed several times

Yet hope is all to hold onto

Invisible faith against invisible lines 

Power of people against power-hungry leaders

A tension of centuries to undo

Deep-seated hate is not part of my hope

Repulse, rebel, repel, revolt

For the right to enjoy life against genocide

Otherwise, it will be humanity’s suicide.