huong1952: The Evacuees
I am not content with this life,
Waking up in the morning, overnight
Children's cries heard, somewhere
A stampede,
Bare footed people running,
Babies in mothers' arms,
The old and infirm pulled in carts.
Once in my motherland, there was a war
which left a bitter after taste,
The residues of chemicals that burnt
Deeper than napalms.
Today I see a trail of evacuees
Zigzagging like ants under rains of leaves,
An emergency, a death sentence,
Running from nowhere to nowhere
In a caged plot of land.
No, I am not content with this life,
Going to bed at night, waking up alive
To the sound of explosions
Elsewhere
Or right here, inside my heart.
Peace had become a dirty word soaked with blood.
Once in my motherland there were
Carpet bombings and revenge killings
By both sides,
Deadly rockets fell on trails of evacuees
Running from nowhere to nowhere
In a caged plot of land,
All in the name of peace.
I am alive, curse me! A survivor!
And I am not content with this life.
History brought back lessons of death,
But alas the hearts denied!
A life is a life,
A kill is a kill,
Intentional or not (who says not?).
I am alive
But the soul is gasping for understanding.
In this madness,
The human eyes are closed (not blinded),
Ears muffled (not deaf),
Hearts hardened like stones.
Only the earth, soaked with blood, moans,
When blistered feet of the innocents
Trample on...
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thinking about how rafa and roger had the same kit sponsor and did joint promo back in the day and now jannik and carlos have the same kit sponsor and are doing joint promo
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I couldn't quite tell through the gas mask mumbling but I think cellbit asked if he could eat charlies leg
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State of Israel,
you are no different than the Nazi Germany who drove millions of Jewish people to humiliation, starvation, and death
Israel, YOU are the Nazis of our time
how did the Nazis of the 11930s and 40s end up?
watch yourself; you are retracing the path to alienation and extinction that your Nazi predecessors walked proudly a hundred years ago
a coalition of humanity and justice lovers is forming against you
dont be so sure that the West will not align with the Arab World to remove a common enemy
be smart, change your ways before the only option is your fiery removal
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[Victor Creel voice] I was back to France—
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"one...two...where's geralt?"
She questioned out loud. Seeing the twins. He was just here.
"Where's my red robe as well???"
Geralt had of course, run off with the cloak, and had stuffed it into his special hiding place under the stairs. It was a pretty color and it was soft... It was his now.
He slunk back out secretly and stood behind Nouma, acting completely innocent.
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Trauma One
“Give me a few days of peace in your arms—I need it terribly. I’m ragged, worn, exhausted. After that I can face the world.”
-Henry Miller, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953-
This dance doesn’t love itself, or us, adrift on rocks we seem to think might feel the worst or bleed a resolution. And God, bereft but still alive, we hope—just let it be enough, to sway, silent and alone, far yet somehow close, empathically entwined.
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