"Is it too late?"
too late for what? most of them were thinking. Some even looked at their watches. 4 PM, they indicated.
"Is it too late to say we live?
Is it too late to say we're human?"
wait a minute... what is this thing talking about humanity? Haw dares it address us like this unprompted and unschedueled? their facial expressions were screaming.
Only one brave congress woman seemed to get what was happening. She left her seat and came accross to our side.
"If our flags threaten your peace.
Our greeting words are frowned upon.
Our clothes and outfits are signs of disturbance.
Are we the proles of Orwell's book?
Or worse, are we the disputed lands' people?
Our lives don't matter. Our dreams die young.
Our voices don't echo in the void of your bubble.
Dehumanized, discriminated,
Sentenced to ever be sacrificed
To grease the system and fuel its machines
That keep the balance -- the status quo.
Did we deserve to be exploited?
Or have we lost the lottery of birth place?
Or maybe we are the ones who got lucky:
You live in the matrix, we live in the world.
Your unknown masters are our known foes.
As long as you have abundance and comfort,
You'll never for a second imagine that maybe
The losing side can be the right side of the conflict.
That choosing a side shouldn't be based on who's winning.
You will never crave for freedom and honor,
Until it costs highly,
until your survival
Depends on revolting --
on breaking the balance.
Til then don't presume we'd be well behaved vistims."
You'd think he got an applaude after saying these words. But no. Handhala said them to the wrong audience. What was he thinking, showing his face, for the first time ever, in such a foul place? A place where only evil is applauded.
The US congress, where only a few weeks ago the orchester of the genocide stood, (And yes I have the right to call it a genocide, since the ICJ & ICC agree) finished his speach, and the supposedly representatives of the US American people applauded him like their very existance in the congress depends on it, which it probably does, by the way. They represent the AIPAC (winner of every US election) more loyally then they do their people. But that's a story for another day.
Today they are the first humans to ever see Handhala's face. See, he's a Palestinian fictional caracter that turned away from the world in defiance. They say he's ten and he'll always be ten. Cause not all Palestinian children get to grow old.
I can't describe his face because I was standing behind him and behind the words he says. But neither can the congress men and women because they all looked away. Just the way they keep looking away from the ongoing slaughter that is taking the lives of tens of thousands of children.
If any of you are sensitive and got triggered by what I wrote, here's a song to sooth your nerves ... kinda.
By the way, I'm not posting this in any community because I don't know where it fits. I don't know how far freedom of speech is still spread on Hive. I haven't been as active as I used to be.
