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Is it fair to hope?
We hope for ceasefire, and yet,
arms from the U.S. are sent one day,
and used to bomb schools the next.
We hope for safety and common good,
but the ones who are to “protect and serve”
do so with prejudice and
instruments of death in their
hip holsters.
We hope for justice,
but it evades those in
positions of power.
Some say there is peace, but it
is nowhere to be found.
Is it fair to hope?
More than ever, it is.
We hope – for the decapitated children,
the fathers who are nothing but body
parts in a bag.
Where is hope?
It exists among us – in the air
we breathe.
It rides in on the wind,
like the kites that are meant to be
flown by Palestinian children.
Naomi A. McQuiller, Master of Divinity and Master of Arts in Practical Theology student, Columbia Theological Seminary
