Is it really living?

The hardships of Palestinian parents

I never thought I’d see anything worse than a mother grieve over her murdered daughter.

Until I saw a father carry the parts of his son in a bag.

Is it really living, to live amongst the dead?

When a parent outlives their child, is not part of them buried in the same grave?

To be haunted by faces,

to still live in the same conditions that stole them,

are …