It’s the same people
The same voices
Speaking up
Speaking out
Sharing the pain
Of seeing genocide
Live streamed
Their blood cries out from the ground
It bothers us
Pains us
Saddens us
But the likes and tears and angry faces
Do nothing
We can react all we like
Then scroll on
To the next horrifying story
Hour after hour
Day after day
Week after week
604 days
Of men, women and children
Blown up
Starved
Humiliated
And still it’s just the same people
The same voices
Speaking up
Speaking out
Bothered
In the midst of silence
A silence that is complicit
A silence that does not make demands
A silence that allows governments
To believe they are supported
In selling death
We need more people
More voices
Speaking up and speaking out
Blowing the trumpet
Like watchmen
Warning
Then, though they neither fear God
Nor respect man,
They will listen and bring justice
Just
To get us
To stop
Bothering
Them
©️Laura Moore 2nd June 2025
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