Hāwane Rios Instagram – can’t sleep went to the mauna tonight my eyes saw a beautiful sunset & i thought to myself ‘do people think the sky over gaza is always grey?’ ‘do people think that the rubble of gaza is all that it ever was?’ ‘do people think that rainbows no longer arch over Rafah?’ ‘do people think enough to care?’ i have seen pictures of gaza even now the clouds are pink the sky is orange like Kona the ocean glistens like Anaeho‘omalu the people are of the moana like us and i ponder on why so many do not care and i understand the intricacies of systems in place that made it that way and i weep and i scream silent screams knowing that these genocides have been happening all my life and the equivalent of the entirety of my grandmothers lifetime and in my life i didn’t know what these atrocities truly looked like or sounded like until now this is the first time in history that a genocide is actively being documented by the innocent victims & i cannot believe that even after seeing MONTHS UPON MONTHS OF HORROR that NOTHING has been done the powers that be are funding it smaller nations are doing everything they can and why the fuck is it taking so long? because people are allowing it people are championing it people are throwing millions at it i’m sick my stomach with disgust heartbroken with grief banned in the shadows and my thoughts always return to gaza always return to the keffiyeh that they gifted us on the mauna along with this flag my mind feels as broken as my heart i will never understand this nothing will ever make any sense of this auē auē auē