Resala: A Message to the Destroyers – A Poem for Gaza

By Roger Sheety

Public evil enters the house of each man, the gates of his courtyard cannot keep it out, it leaps over the high wall; let him flee to a corner of his bedchamber, it will certainly find him out. —Solon

You who sought to destroy us

Have failed.

You who ignored us

Have failed.

And you who mocked us

Are now alone.

We will remember and write

Where you sought to forget and erase.

We…