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Laid Bare XIV: Ancient Prophesy, Epic Conflict & Destiny

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A lone figure veiled in white stands amidst the ruins of a city under a stormy sky, while a few resilient wildflowers bloom in the foreground, symbolizing loss and fragile hope. Skendong Poetry.

No Shelter from the Sky

I try to block out news about Palestine,
Because watching Al Jazeera makes me lose my mind.
The cease-fire broke and the slaughter got worse,
While the world’s distracted by Trump’s tariff wars.

I see kings portion out the land by lots,
A proposed Riviera built on dead children’s bones.
Nowhere to run under the moon or sun,
No shelter from the sky and the falling bombs.

Death comes in weapons shipped from overseas,
To implement their genocidal ethnic cleansing.
Curious minds cannot enter Gaza to witness
This horrible blockade by land and sea.

They attack tent camps in safe zones again,
Bullets scatter all the refugees’ dreams.
You kill with your advanced machines of war,
But this doesn’t mean you have conquered them.

Your decency died to annihilate what they have.
Mosques, churches, and ancient sites destroyed.
Gatherings become funerals, funerals become gatherings,
And there’s a news blackout of the occupied West Bank.

God, how long shall Palestinians’ cries go unheard?
Or shout “Violence!” to Your silent face?
Did they come to live just to die as prey?
In Yehoshua’s name we pray: Justice, Lord.

Prelude by Skendong: Laid Bare: Ancient Prophesy, Epic Conflict & Destiny

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  • Steven says:

    G-D ‘ayah Asher ayah’ witnessed everything and witnesses again. We know how propaganda works, and the excuses that come hereafter, but blood doesn’t stay silent.

    Too many things I have seen with my own eyes (Unsanitized) and no ammount of news-spin can make me unsee. A thought is a ‘Prayer’ and a ‘Prayer’ a thought.

    Not lost in my bookmark of a conflict that I really don’t know how it can be concluded with the current world leaders in place. But justice will come and the call for retribution swift is it not written so?

    There will be no hiding place for the wicked!

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