{"id":299563,"date":"2025-07-21T13:25:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=299563"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:39:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:39:20","slug":"salt-in-their-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/07\/salt-in-their-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Salt in Their Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gaza 2025<\/p><\/div>\n

In Gaza\u2019s dusk where silence swells,
\nThe children wait by broken wells.
\nNo bread to break, no songs to sing,
\nJust buzzing drones and circling wing.<\/p>\n

They gather near the aid-line fence,
\nStarved eyes behind a wire\u2019s defense.
\nA bag of rice, a shattered tin…
\nBut boots and bullets thunder in.<\/p>\n

No warning call, no shelter near,
\nJust screaming metal, dust, and fear.
\nThey came for food. They found a gun.
\nTheir bodies crumble, one by one.<\/p>\n

The mothers wrap them cloth by cloth,
\nTheir mouths too dry to speak or sob.
\nWhile leaders meet with ink and scorn,
\nAnother child goes unborn.<\/p>\n

Fields are ash. The sea runs dry.
\nThe stars look down, but don\u2019t reply.
\nThe world debates what law allows
\nWhile famine grips with iron vows.<\/p>\n

And still they stand with salt in hands,
\nDreams buried deep beneath the sands.
\nNot beasts, not threats… just flesh and bone
\nLeft starving, broken, and alone.<\/p>\n

But shame runs deepest not abroad,
\nNot in the stranger’s cold applaud…
\nBut in the hearts that know the tongue,
\nThe ancient songs their mothers sung.<\/p>\n

The ones who kneel and fast and pray,
\nYet let their kin be burned away.
\nNot out of chains, nor lack of might…
\nBut fear to speak, or loss of right.<\/p>\n

They watched the skies rain steel and flame,
\nAnd whispered not a single name.
\nTheir silence louder than the blast,
\nTheir comfort bought while Gaza passed.<\/p>\n

What is a bond if not this thread…
\nTo raise the dying, shield the dead?
\nWhat is a neighbor, if not near,
\nWhen cries of mercy fill the air?<\/p>\n

Not all are guilty…
\nbut the stain Will mark the silent just the same.
\nFor complicity wears no badge,
\nBut it is carved on every page.<\/p>\n

So carve it clear in every tongue:
\nThey died for food beneath the sun.
\nNot in war, nor with a sword…
\nBut for the crime of being ignored<\/p>\n

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