#8: The One with the Genocide Before Our Eyes

4am thoughts.

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Dear friend,

How are you? And how is your heart?

Is it broken wide open, like mine?

Is it filled with an indescribable pain and grief for what is happening in our world right now?

Is it still beating inside your human body, but somehow simultaneously with every man, woman and child in Palestine facing near-certain slaughter?

I have had no words in recent days. But so many words. Putting them together has seemed impossible at times. I lie here at 4am BST, in the very early morning of the 28th October 2023, and I feel too sick to sleep. But as the words come, I’m allowing them to flow.

There is currently a complete blackout in Gaza: no electricity, no internet. Plunged in darkness and being attacked from land, air and sea by the Israeli government, backed by Britain and the USA. As we’re tucked up in our nice cosy beds, in our safe, comfortable homes, just imagine for one second what it would be like to be there… just imagine.

When morning comes, I’m pretty certain that the majority of the Palestinians in Gaza will have been wiped out. When morning comes, I know the mourning will be like nothing we have ever experienced as a collective.

Yet, we will still hear the line, “Israel deserves to defend itself.”

All I ask is to allow yourself to see this time for what it is.

See through the illusion of this world.

See the systems and the social order that controls, manipulates and divides us.

See the GENOCIDE. This one, the many that have come before and the many others that are still just under our radar.

See the hypocrisy, see the bias, see the lies.

This is Letters of Love & Light, and embodying Love & Light, for me, means to see and accept the duality of this world.

The fact that hate exists. That darkness lives. That evil feeds off fear. The fact that some lives are simply worth more than others - and that many among us really do believe that. It’s to see it all, accept it all - and hopefully, to transmute it all.

We are all faced with choices right now, in this moment.

Do we choose to bear witness, or do we choose to look away? Do we choose humanity, or do we choose murder? Do we choose unity, or do we choose division? Do we choose to use our voices, or do we choose to allow ourselves to be silenced?

Do we choose Love, or do we choose fear?

What I know with absolute certainty is that nothing is ever, ever going to be the same again. For any single one of us.

Please, my brothers and sisters, please pray for the Palestinians. Please pray for humanity.

I don’t know what else to say right now, but I will be back with another letter later this week when my heart is able to bring forth the right words.

Sending Light, Love & Peace to you and to the whole of humanity, today and always,

Sabah ✨💛🍉