Refaat Alareer, an academic and lecturer at the Islamic University of Gaza, was martyred along with his family in a targeted assassination carried out by the Israeli occupation on December 7th, 2023. We must continue to stand against this genocide.
unfortunately if you are an old friend of mine i will always care about you no matter what even if we haven’t seen each other in forever because i still remember what you were like 7 years ago and i still remember how it felt to be young with you and i still have a lot of love for you in the back of my mind
Suddenly, I am human again with you. I am so human, I could burst from my skin. I am so human I want to share my humanness with you. I don’t. I am afraid you are afraid of such things. No, I know you are afraid. Or don’t want to receive such things in the first place. I push the hair from your forehead with a single and silent forefinger. Push my humanness away and play pretend. Again. Again, I pretend.
— Jessica Helen Lopez, from “Poem for My Beloved,” The Blood Poems
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