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“[Happy New Year to Our Complicity]

Let us make this year
truly new,
and truly happy,
by ceasing to be complicit,
and by abandoning
the same worn-out phrases:
"Wishing you a wonderful year!"
or
"Happy New Year!"
Enough of deceiving ourselves.
We are not well.
We are not happy.
And there is nothing new
under a sun that still rises
with weary reluctance,
its heat growing fiercer each year
over a world filled with killing,
war,
and gratuitous death.
And so long as we do nothing
to change our miserable reality
except through dubious funding
from abroad,
then allow me, my friends,
to wish us all
a new year overflowing with more:
more shopping malls
and more consumption,
more bombing,
destruction,
occupation,
and partition,
more military bases,
more arms deals,
more gunpowder,
missiles,
and bombs.
Allow me to wish us a year
in which even more cities
and civilizations are destroyed
in the name of revolutions
orchestrated by those
who care for nothing
but wealth.
I wish us a new year
filled with a silence
more hideous
than the silence of a devil
who sees the truth
and refuses to speak,
for the sake of salaries
and lucrative deals.
And may every year find us
the wound
conspiring with the dagger
buried in our side,
while we shop
and shout with perfect innocence:
"Happy New Year!"

31 December 2024”
― Louis Yako, سرطان في كل مكان [Cancer Everywhere]