When Empathy Died

When empathy was dead

and only silence could be heard,

Israel was supreme,

godlike in its power.

Humane rights were dead,

humans followed,

any of them.

Criminalised

Criminalised for a flag.

Criminalised for displaying its colours,

for wearing its colours,

for painting its colours

in the country where it arose from,

in the country where it belongs.

Criminalised for a fruit,

for eating a fruit,

for growing a fruit

in a place where it should grow naturally.

Criminalised by the occupation.

Criminalised.

But the seeds grew

and still they grow 

and spread

the seeds.