I have lost my fellow humans.
They have disappeared into the darkness—
their humanity abandoned just outside the cave,
blood on their knees as they crawled away from the horrors outside.

But I can hear them screaming from the depths.
My heart has broken a million times over for Palestine.

My soul is like dust, but my bones are in tact for no reason.
I am alone here.

My mouth is open in a silent scream, and the void stares back at me unfeeling.
I have lost my fellow humans.

My family is gone—
their eyes are cold and empty.

Our souls are dead and rotting,
like the bodies of the children under rubble,
buried and forgotten and silent.

I have drowned a million times over, but it doesn’t matter.
Breath still finds my lungs for no reason.

I am not an innocent child.

I am not innocent.

Humanity has devoured itself in fear,
and now I fear humanity.

I am alone here.

I am alone.