Fire Season, Pt. 2

We made a home and it went up in flames But our bodies are something the fire did not claim On that day We were just making plans to stay And then our house burned down while everything changed Y'all I said I'm not the same I see my home when I see yours in flames I know the stench of that building is putrid I know exactly how corrosive the soot is But what it means to have to dig through that rubble? To find your loved ones when most of us would just run? The whole world is a Palestinian struggle We want the freedom to stay where we're from And the freedom to move, and stay human All these images that we have been consuming Are not meant for us to grow numb to 'em Or to normalize the death of these children I'm quite convinced by these current events That genocide happens when we sit on the fence And rebelling against it is just what makes sense By any and all means For the love of humanity Outside of a war zone I don't know what's reality When the soul of my soul needs time to mourn family And they don't even get a minute to rest From Gaza to the West Bank Congo to Sudan Tigray to all around my Mothers homeland When the skies light up You just lost your plans And nothing makes sense You go as fast as you can These bombs left deep scars in the land I don't know how it heals I don't know if it can I just hold these stories like seeds in my hand May you grow, from the soil of our souls The roots run deeper than our toil on these roads May you grow into freedom for us all We watch the world fall as these embers glow With faith in a tomorrow that we may not know The phoenix that is us From the ashes of our homes