I don’t want to be insensitive
By doing normal things in abnormal times
and maybe sharing it.
By showing or not showing faces on missing person posters in an otherwise quiet vacant coiled-up Tel Aviv.
By watching or not watching Gazan children quivering, covered in blood, dust and tears.
By comparing traumas. By supporting new ones.
You who survived the Holocaust.
You who lived through the Nakba.
You who tried to reconcile the two.
You who will not be forced off your Land.
You whose God has justified your cause.
You who understand your Peace and maybe not theirs.
I don’t want to be insensitive to any of you and any of it,
but I still want to be human and alive
in body and spirit
and allow the pain to be as real as it is
so that maybe one day
we can all heal
together or apart,
But For Good.
May all the Gods and Prayers come together for the Holy Land to live up to its name
Dad In The World 