Not With All the Hope in the World - Gaza

The Earth was warm from the sun

You weren’t ivory like the movies

The dirt stained you, dissolved you, eroded you, revealed you

You couldn’t escape that.

Not with your faith

Not with all the hope in the world

So I kissed you on the teeth and laid there with you in the sun

And you answered more questions there than you ever did breathing

The dirt eroded you.

Dissolved you.

Destroyed you