How much pain?

How much pain

Can a human sustain?

The loss of home,

Of limb,

Of child?

Of father

Mother

Brother

Sister?

A neighbor

A friend

A stranger

1000 humans?

How much blood

Will it take to appease

How much injustice?

Can a human sustain?

I scream

I cry

I can't eat

Or sleep

All fades away

All that remains

Is Gaza-

Gaza burns

Gaza bleeds

Gaza weeps

Gaza screams

And yet...

Gaza sustains

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A crown of thorns was placed

On the brow of Jesus

Baby Moses cast off in a basket on the Nile

Mohammed saved by a spider's web

And still they fight-

How much fight

Can a human sustain?

I find my heart melt

And pray for mercy

For the oppressor

For I am afraid

For what will await

When justice delivers

How much justice 

Can the cruel sustain

In my pain

As I break

And yet I sustain

I pray for Gaza 

And for the blessings of heaven to shower

The sweet faces in death

As if asleep

Some stilled in pain

May the angels welcome

With songs of praise

The innocent

To heaven untimely sent

In my pain

No anger here...

I pray for the cruel 

For them let there be

Mercy from Heaven

Have mercy on them Lord

May the angels whisper mercy 

And stay their murdering hands

 

How much mercy

Can the cruel sustain?