The fear is just fear But the pain it causes is a fact Will it pass if you weather the storm Or will you simply be swallowed by this thunder Left outside, alone in the cold She acts like she understands but she also seems blind To what feels so obviously different to you But perhaps all that's different Is that you're the one at her mercy Instead of the one testing her trust You're trying to compartmentalize this stress This jealousy that comes from their indifference They want her, not you, why should they care what you're into? Whenever you meet, it will be hard not to show The reflection of any apathy they feel back to them Do you need to matter to them if you matter to her? What can she do to show you what she wants from you To make the fun with them all the better for her Or is it that she already is overstimulated enough And caring for you will be inconvenient and distracting None of this necessarily feels like truth, but nonetheless it sucks You never imagined
The starving of hostages is atrocious, but I am curious, would you be more enraged over it if the Israelis did this to a Palestinian captive, all the while Palestinians were actively driving Israel out of Jerusalem with the use of the sort of overwhelming military force that Israel is using today? Imagine if the U.S. supported Palestine instead. How would you feel? I can't think of the ongoing atrocities in that region without thinking of Bob Dylan's, "With God on Our Side," and wonder, why didn't God just do this to the Romans, if it was truly the way he wanted the Holy Land reclaimed in the name of his chosen people. It is hard to imagine a more arrogant and solipsistic claim that a people could make. I get it, it is quite a rhetorical device, but quite unknowable and beyond proof to the point of absurdity if you examine it closely and don't just, "take it on faith," that God cares about some peoples more than others. If you believe the Palestinian