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Is the Devil Real ?

As I watched a large green tank roll towards me,

as I stood in the middle of the street,

Walking towards my college with ear phones in my ears,

I wondered if the devil was real.

When I ran in to the classroom for protection as everyone scattered into a state of havoc,

I heard bullet shots hit the windows and learned some students were hit,

I wondered if the soldiers pulled the trigger or the devil did.

As the students and professors gathered the courage to protect one another,

Tear gas was shot into the building through the broken glass,

As I held my breath, I thought “It must be the devil”.

My parents heard about the attacks from Al-Jazeera news and told me to come home.

I told them “I still have class tomorrow” as I prepared my assignments for the next day,

I thought I should not give in to fear.

I lived today and i could live tomorrow.

I woke up to hear my friend was shot dead.

His blood ran through our palestinian soil as he laid there.

I didn’t know that I wouldn’t be able to say goodbye,

But I guess the devil didn’t want that neither.

Sometimes the soldiers would knock on my aparment door along with all the neighbors,

I thought the devil wanted a late night snack to raid our homes and leave us in the cold.

When I opened the tv to hear about the bombing in Gaza being described as “Operation protective edge” instead of “the masscre of Shujaya”.

I wondered why the devil hated us?

But then I thought, The devil’s goal is not to hate us.

The devils goal is to make us hate one another.

It whispers in our ears to kill, to seek revenge, to take pride in war.

The devil never was real in our world.

The devil never pulled the trigger.

The devil didn’t care if we never said goodbye.

The devil never wanted a late night snack.

The devil never hated each other.

Does the devil really exsist?

Maybe it does...

But for sure Demons exsist,

the ones who chose to wear the horns,

they become the demons that we fear in movies.

They become their own nightmare ,

serenading them selfs with angels dust.

The devil could have whispered in your ear but you created your demons.

No one to blame but ourselves for the pain we’ve caused one another.