The sliding scales of sympathy

Hatreds harvest comes again in a rocky Hebron field  

This bloodied land so fertile each year brings a larger yield

Seeds planted and ploughed within the minds of those who grow,

blackened shoots that bloom, and damn yet more to lie below

 

Netanyahu’s outrage and calls for a vengeance so severe

seem to forget how many children the IDF has disappeared

Midnight raids and disturbing trends in youth incarceration,

the lists of buried children, and their moral separation

 

The white house speaks of condemnation for the killing of civilians,

displaying again that distance from their tally in the millions

The Yemeni children dragged from rubble would seem to make the claim

that only chosen childrens death will warrant any blame

 

What have we become when childrens life is on a scale ?

Tolerances coffin lays awaiting its last nail

When sections of humanity are rendered null and void

we see hypocrisy and hate run free whilst unity’s destroyed

 

No childs life is worth more grief than any others loss,

slaughtered for our sins, so many nailed upon the cross

Corpses used as pawns to keep us putting up our walls,

this sliding scale of sympathies will free us when it falls