The sky looks like them---
Just waiting to burst out in tears
Scream
And collapse

You ring in my ear and my mind
You were too loud
And I was forced to be around you too long

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You go In your haunting voice with your haunting actions
Yet another thing if yours
With a result that makes me feel bad

White, black, green, and red,
Waving a flag.
Let the world know
There is a right to be alive—
The people of Palestine have,
In their own olive land.

You looked the same,
and yet nothing like I remembered.
Your eyes, sharp and soft all at once,
pulled me back to every place we had been,
and every place we never went.
The laughter we shared,
the fights that cracked us,
And the dreams we were too afraid to dream.