
Hi everyone, this is #APoemToRead, a little corner on A Bit of This and A Bit of That Podcast.
It's been more than a year since the last episode of this podcast overall, but almost four years since the last episode of A Poem To Read series. For the 6th installment of the series, I read If I Must Die by Reefat Al-Areer.
Reefat Al-Areer was a Palestinian writer, poet, professor, and activist who was murdered by an Israeli strike in 2023 during its still ongoing genocidal siege of Palestine. His murder once again amplified the cruel reality that the people of Palestine has been going through for many years under the Israeli occupation.
I read this poem as a reminder to myself to always keep Palestine in my heart and do everything within my ability to echo, and hopefully contribute, however little, to their fight for liberation.
May we all live true to our humanity, and may God make it easy for us in our fight to protect our humanity. All my love to Palestine and everyone fighting for their liberation against occupation. Illegal occupation has no place anywhere on earth.
BGM: Melody in Ash by Kike Gutz
https://www.freepik.com/audio/tune/melody-in-ash