Lebanon

I'm tired of being Lebanese.

I'm tired of being Arab.

I'm tired of living in a mad world.

I'm tired of being a sheep.

I'm tired of being sacrificed for something or someone that wouldn't care if I lived.

I'm tired of being young, yet already so old and wounded.

I'm tired of having to explain to a 10-year-old that this world is "normal."

I'm tired of rebuilding my future from scratch every time my country fails to protect me.

I'm tired of living in a country that can't even afford to fail properly.

I'm tired of calling my friends every few hours just to check if they're safe.

I'm tired of answering "I'm alive", when deep down, we all feel so dead.

This isn't surviving. This is living under a constant guillotine above our necks.

We are condemned either way.

I don't ask for much.

But when I do, I ask for life; and somehow, that seems like too much.

I'm tired of being Lebanese.

I'm tired of being Lebanese.

I'm tired of living in a world so eager for death.

I don't want to check the news just to see if it's safe to go outside.

I don't want to normalize this madness.

I refuse you.

I refuse you.

I refuse this world that keeps choosing death over us.