Still Counting

When can we count the dead in Gaza,

where dead or living the people don’t count.

Those buried in named graves we know

but those buried in the rubble

are unknown

uncounted.

In Israel where people count,

we know the numbers,

and the the names.

But this is no war of equals

so no need to count the dead in Gaza.

In this war on women and their children

how can we count the injured in Gaza.

No one knows the number,

no one can count the numbers

when there are no hospitals left

and its people don’t count.

Now the starved and starving 

have joined them,

the bags of baby bones

the unaccounted numbers

of intentional famine

in Gaza where still

no one counts.

https://oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-lynn-white-15/