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Poem: Hamas and Israel are at Open War [1]

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Date: 2023-10-09  

Hamas and Israel are at Open War

Hamas and Israel are at open war

Again

Israelis have been killed

Barbarically

And Palestinians have been killed

Randomly

And I know this because

I have been reading comments

On a DK post

And learning

Both sides are right,

Both sides are wrong,

One side is more right

Than the other

And conditions have been really bad

The last few years

Or it started back in 1948

Or from events in distant history

Or all this is true

Or not

And this is all I know

About the subject currently

'Cause I have not watched TV

News shows this weekend

And really!

What can I do about it?

Living 7,000 miles away

In a small home

That's turned cold enough

To need another blanket on the bed,

Where my personal fretting is over

The food budget that no longer allows

Me to buy chocolate to nibble on

With my afternoon cup of tea

The only way I can see

To change the world

Is to increase my level of kindness

To my wife

And everyone else I come in

Contact with and hope

It spreads onward

And to vote for sanity

When it is that time

Again.

Carl Scott Harker ©2023

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My latest book for children of poetry is now available on Amazon, you can find it here: The HedgeHog and Other Selected Poems.

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