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Edwin F Young

This Song, "Truth Buried Alive", is inspired by an article written by a Doctor in Gaza.
This one -
While headlines, including those of Al Jazeera, shift between “progress” and “setbacks” in ceasefire negotiations, and while studios summon experts to analyze the death of a single Israeli soldier, calling it a “turning point” or a symbol of Gaza’s resilience, the truth remains buried. Not hidden by chance, but buried with intention. It is untouched, unspoken, and unseen, because to name it would collapse the illusions that keep this world upright. Even as I write these words, my phone does not stop ringing. Call after call, voice after trembling voice. My relatives, my people, have just been ordered by the Israeli army to evacuate immediately. No destination, no reason, only the blunt command to leave. Last night, their homes were shelled. The sky broke open. Walls fell. Children bled. And now they ask, Where can we go? Is there a tent, a floor, a patch of earth that still allows life? This is not war. It is the organized humiliation of human life. It is despair delivered daily, so monotonous that the world forgets it exists. Terror, displacement, and grief have become our daily rituals, but no one is watching. Their agony will not be broadcast, unless they die in a way that fits the screen. Unless their death is more useful than their life ever was. We are not living through a tragedy. We are caught inside a system. A machinery that demands silence and rewards indifference. A chapter of history where grief must perform to be heard, where suffering must innovate to be noticed, where entire families disappear without consequence. This is not resilience. It is abandonment, dressed as neutrality. And we are not metaphors. We are not statistics. We are people, being erased in silence, not because the world cannot hear us, but because it chooses not to.

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