We Are Still Here… Still Waiting
Sometimes I look at the sky and feel as though a thousand voices are dying inside my chest. I am still torn between a grief that silently destroys me, tears I struggle to hide, and a faint glimmer of hope that I keep reaching for in the darkness.
We are still trapped in the same cycle of displacement and suffering, standing in the same place, with no idea what the coming days will bring.
We feel imprisoned inside Gaza, while restrictions on the entry of essential supplies continue to tighten. Even things we desperately need, including those shown in the attached photo, are being prevented from entering.
Sometimes I feel as though our lives are hanging by a thread. I may be here today, writing to you and trying to hold on to hope, but I cannot guarantee that I will still be here tomorrow.
And that is what frightens me the most… that one day I may no longer be able to write to you, and I may become just another number in a news story about someone lost in Gaza.
No matter how hard I try to describe the suffocation we are living through, I will never be able to give it the weight it deserves. Waking up every day not knowing what will happen to you, living between displacement, fear, and loss… is something words cannot truly carry.
We are exhausted… but we are still here. Still waiting, still holding on to the smallest glimmer of hope that this nightmare will end before it takes more from us.
I am Farah, and I am still here… and I still have a footprint.