It's crashing on your property-
\nnot just the dirt in front of the door,
\nyour grandfather's mark,
\nthe key your mother hid,
\nthe tomorrow you thought you'd leave to your child is gone.<\/p>\n
Your vote is collapsing-
\nit's not about a finger of ink,
\nthe promises you believe in, the dreams you dream,
\n\u201cEverything you say \u201dchanges\"
\novernight it becomes someone else's sentence.<\/p>\n
Your municipality is collapsing-
\nthe city that is yours
\nslowly alienating you,
\nyour street doesn't recognize you anymore,
\nthe walls are painted in another language.<\/p>\n
Historic buildings are collapsing-
\nthe stones are silent,
\nwindows stop telling the past,
\nonce living memory
\nand blowing away in the dust.<\/p>\n
Collapsing on your olive-
\nthe fruit of a thousand years of patience,
\nwith a signature;
\nthe pain is not only on the branch,
\nis felt deep in the root.<\/p>\n
Collapsing into the river-
\nthe sound of the water changes,
\nnothing flows freely anymore;
\nnot the one who finds his way,
\nthe path is being drawn.<\/p>\n
Collapsing forest-
\nthe shadow is receding,
\nthe tongue of the wind breaks,
\nthe earth no longer recognizes its burden.<\/p>\n
Collapsing in your village-
\nthe doors won't close,
\nbecause there are no more openers;
\nsilence, where laughter used to roam
\nhe settles in and stays.<\/p>\n
The east is collapsing-
\nthe sky is narrowing,
\nthe horizon is approaching step by step;
\neven breathing
\nis presented as a permission, as a blessing.<\/p>\n
And then-
\nthe deepest, the most invisible:<\/p>\n
It crashes into your will.<\/p>\n
His voice, his word,
\n\u201cI'm here.\u201d.
\nThat thin line that makes a person human,
\nthe right to decide,
\neven the freedom to be wrong.<\/p>\n
It crashes into your thought-
\nwords are chosen,
\nsentences are weighed,
\nsilence becomes a habit.<\/p>\n
Collapsing in time-
\nthe future is being postponed,
\nhope is on hold,
\nyouth linger patiently.<\/p>\n
And worst of all-
\nto the world.<\/p>\n
Little by little,
\nwithout realizing it,
\nso quiet that you forget to protest,
\nto teach us acceptance.<\/p>\n
And we are
\nin this darkness
\nlooking for each other's voices-<\/p>\n
\u201cSomeone who says, \u201dI'm here.\",
\n\u201cSomeone who says, \u201dI haven't forgotten.\",
\n\u201cSomeone who says, \u201dThis can't go on like this.\".<\/p>\n
Because we know-
\nthis weight that settles on everything,
\nbut are removed together.<\/p>\n
And one day-
\non the same soil, under the same sky,
\nwe will speak with our own voices again.<\/p>\n
When that day comes
\nwhatever collapses
\nhe'll remember his place,<\/p>\n
and we
\nwe'll be ourselves again.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\nso quiet that you forget to protest,
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