Another Neurodivergent Queer Writes A Blog!

I stepped out onto Ocean’s shores,
wet air blew through my loose hair.
Ocean you are one as the air above.
You are one as the earth beneath you.
How could you allow this destruction,
I asked Ocean, demanded rather.
How could you billow your calm rush
as so much human life is ruined?
Ocean, won’t you raise yourself,
won’t you do anything for people
besieged, caged, massacred?
Ocean, these waters at my feet,
you’ve known Palestinian shores,
thrown salt at kufiya’d heads,
won’t you do anything? A wave
to cleanse plans of slaughter?
Your surf could overturn, restore,
how could you not act when we cannot?
You are one, kindly waters, whole,
while bodies lie scattered, collections
once whole gathered into grocery bags
for burial as if one, as one once.
Ocean you must act where we cannot,
but you have not and you will not,
just like an American envoy, you are,
drunk with power, blindly righteous,
just like them and their damned vetoes.
If my feet carry me two steps further
into your constant lapping motions
in this moonless, starless night,
won’t you at least convey my strength
to enduring Gaza’s ancient-made shore,
to its people who refuse quiet death?
What need have I for strength? Share it,
Ocean, please, it is all I have to give,
won’t you even bring them our thoughts?
Gods, how thought fills me past bursting,
but it makes no difference. Ocean, just do something!

But Ocean did nothing, has done nothing, and will do nothing. It is up to us to act, to change minds, to gather our collective strength, to save Palestinian life, to set out a global agenda that advocates for all life, human animal vegetal wild. These wild powers aren’t concerned for our thoughts, don’t heed our prayers, couldn’t fathom this leaded grief. But one mighty wave could overturn a shipment of bunker busters, with their radioactive uranium tips. One mighty push could unseat American carriers that have no business stationed offshore. But even as these wild powers don’t notice our feeble-faced species, what other force could save us all from what is coming to us all?