CONFESSION ZERO

I support Israel's right to defend itself, as I do all nations and peoples, Benjamin. Problem is, there is no defense for your Government's genocide against the Palestinian Peoples, there is no defense for theft, no excuse for attacks on ships in international waters, no excuse for the blockade on Gaza, no excuse for holding away food and water and supplies for the Palestinians, no excuse for firing on and killing peaceful protesters, men, women, and children. You, sir, have a lot of gall to speak of ambassadorship. Enough. Stand down your mighty machine, brother, or the truth might dismiss you all together and the people you claim to support will remove you from your selfishness when they see that your "leadership" only serves to bring them more suffering. Bless the Israeli peoples, bless the Palestinian peoples, bless them all... Peace and Love © 2014 Mark Richard Prime

© 2014 Mark Richard Prime

Where is the light emanating from your living? (Snuggled tightly to our ashen mother of sustenance, her concrete cloth lashed tightly around our mouths while decaying organs clang upon their rusty pipes, a reverie to the stone dragons sleeping in our dark.) Where are the soft, milk-filled breasts of your suckling mercy? Have they too been punctured by the weight of your sins? Do they now ooze out offerings at the foot of tyranny’s trough? (All’s been drained, shipped away in barrels.) How do you endure, pitiful as you are? (We are homeless upon these darkened streets. Homeless and hungry in our unremarkable dwelling, begging that we might buy back scant drops of her nectar.) Above the granite facing of shadow there stands your emaciated lady. She stares eyeless toward the spanning ocean, might she be the world’s saving grace? (Her light has long been gone, spent, sold.) Was she ever beautiful? (Our history books say that her light once spread out over the entire g