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| One Year Since |
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| Remi - Poems | |
| Written by Remi Kanazi | |
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It’s been one year since
drop
every Hellfired cluster bombed city, town, and village each explosion dragging a homeland back one more year
I can still see little jovial girls writing on missiles vehicles emerging from the South on Israeli orders white flags running river red with the stench of charred flesh and fresh suffering images of old men cupping seas of tears on mounds of crushed homes and limbs of children
I can still feel my fast heartbeat and inner fear no time for panic a new war an old anger dredged up balancing Iraq Palestine and Afghanistan already raging against CNN and Wolf Blitzer a Congress so filled with venom a people perish and my home country revels
It’s been one year since the Beirut blackout and the generator is still generating fear not water electricity or sanitation
one year since the death toll mounted a world remains silent forgotten like the projects and New Orleans forgotten like ‘82 forgotten like all the forgotten until the day the forgetful are forgotten too
 
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