Palestine - فلسطین
Occupation. Apartheid. Genocide.
Empty words on our screens
Such is the story of فلسطین
Resilience, courage and sacrifice
The only forms of defense
Left to the people of فلسطین
Prophets of the 21st century
Pretenders of peace and equality
With their selective humanity
While warmongers and child killers
Admit guilt of acts
Beyond evil
And the rest of us watch
As فلسطین burns
To rubble, bones and ash
Before our tainted soulless husks
And idle blood-stained hands
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– Saud Ahmed works in financial services but is a writer at heart. He is passionate about three things: writing poetry and fiction, reading fantasy novels and playing football. In 2017, he began channeling his feelings into poetry and found it to be therapeutic for the soul. He writes when inspiration calls and needs nothing more than the notepad on his phone and some time alone. He wants to share his work with the world and befriend a community of writers in the process. He won the Salam Award in 2023 for his science fiction and fantasy short story, Earth 747.
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