How to break

How to break

The blockade of Gaza continues with no aid, medicine, water, fuel and electricity getting into the strip. Everywhere else in the world, machinations continue to make speaking out against a genocide illegal with laws being changed, people being arrested, sacked and blacklisted and narratives being altered, all to support a Genocidal entity.

Everywhere you turn, Syria, Lebanon, Congo, Sudan, atrocities continue and it is as if we are meant to accept it all, silently and compliantly.

Well, I refuse to accept it.

And I keep on thinking of Mother Nature who has outlasted them all and her incredible lessons of resilience.

How to break

She’s fierce, she’s kind, she’s everywhere,

Kings, queens, dictators and emperors,

she’s outlasted one and all,

and as sure the moon controls the tides

she knows that one day, all empires will fall.

When I think I cannot stand to see

one more crushed and broken body,

or one more child screaming out in vain,

I think of Mother Nature

and the lessons that she teaches me

again, and again and again.

How willows weep but not from grief,

that leaves will fall but do not falter

and one day branches will bud again.

That each night sinks into darkness,

but that each day begins with dawn.

And just like waves,

we can break but remain unbroken

and continue to face the shore.

We can break but remain unbroken

is her lesson I will carry with me forevermore.