Forty Million Tonnes And Counting


Forty Million Tonnes 

and what do we get?

Almost a song lyric 

written for those who don’t get older, 

the uncounted ones lost in the rubble of Gaza.


Forty Million Tonnes of homes, roads, 

and infrastructure converted into rubble

that will take uncountable years for us to clear

and still longer to rebuild towns and villages, 

to replant crops and trees.

And who are the ‘us’ - the ones who will pay.

The same ‘us’ as did it before

and will do it again

unless perpetrators are held accountable.


And while this goes on, year upon year

‘they’ will feed those surviving

living still in that wasteland of rubble.

The same ‘they’ as did it before, 

are trying to do it now

and will do it again

unless perpetrators are held accountable.


And how will we, us, they and them 

deal with the hate engendered.

It will have to be dealt with,

then what will we do

as we count the cost

once again.


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