We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage / And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, / We Poets of the proud old lineage / Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why ... (James Elroy Flecker)

17.12.25

Light Dims on Bondi Beach

 

Rifle shots darken 

day, mood, life force.


Killing Jews in Australia

doesn’t save Palestinians 

suffering in Gaza. Just as

slaughtering people in Gaza

has not stopped terrorists.


What, then? Hibernate? Enter 

the darkness? Escape 

under that blanket, despair?


Or light our candles

for all?



Written for Quadrille #238 at dVerse: 44 words including ‘hibernate’.


People have been lighting candles for those  killed in the recent Bondi Beach attack on civilians celebrating Hanukkah. Others are asking why we don't do that for the victims of the genocide in Gaza.



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