Hypocrite!,
– a Greek word –
sitting in a distant room
as if separate from the world,
and crying.
You would be desperate
if the ones that you love most
learned how to hate.
Who said you’re separate
when you are one
fragment
of this whole.
Save your despair,
your tears, your Western pain.
Hypocrite.
You never even said any of these words right. Sabra.
Shatila.
Not a single time without crying.
Yerushalayim.
“Complicity” was written on May 12th, 2021, after the news about the imminent evictions in Sheikh Jarrah had been published in worldwide media. The author Anna Chatzimichael is based in Athens, Greece.