You cannot be neutral

You cannot be neutral
to a voice.

You cannot turn it down
to fit the limits of your hearing.

You cannot count us by bodies
we are lives.

You cannot locate our cracks
these make us legends.

We count our deaths
as stories

 that still breathe
not numbers on a screen.

We count our resurrections.

We are here
and everywhere

By Rana Abdulfattah