Not even tents, some cloths, wet
cardboard and pieces of plastic tied
between mud bushes, children
limp with their mothers, everywhere
young men stomping around
looking in every nook and corner
of their heads how to tear
down the fence, leave
their hopeless misery
in this no man's land
to put love again
in the eyes begging for help
Who cares about them, who
among us breaks the indecision, who
brings water, a bed, a loaf of bread, who
does do something, who goes to them, who
dares to look them in the eye
from person to person?
May 18
May 18, 2026 at 3:57 AM UTC
Not even tents, some cloths, wet
cardboard and pieces of plastic tied
between mud bushes, children
limp with their mothers, everywhere
young men stomping around
looking in every nook and corner
of their heads how to tear
down the fence, leave
their hopeless misery
in this no man's land
to put love again
in the eyes begging for help
Who cares about them, who
among us breaks the indecision, who
brings water, a bed, a loaf of bread, who
does do something, who goes to them, who
dares to look them in the eye
from person to person?
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Zaynab **** Khuzayma "al-Masakin" (AD 620)
Collection "From Sacred Scriptures: The Praised One"
