Palestine in My Hear by Pitika Ntuli (Botsotso, 2025)
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Pitika Ntuli, South African sculptor, poet, writer, and academic who's work explores African spirituality, identity, and the legacy of colonialism through a multidisciplinary practice that blends art, language, and activism, writes Palestine in My Heart, a series of poems dedicated to the Children of Gaza who, in the words of the author "clutched crayons not weapons, and hugged dolls as the walls collapsed."
"May your laughter, silenced too soon,
echo louder than bombs.
You are not collateral.
You are constellations
buried beneath rubble,
waiting to be renamed
by a sky that still remembers you.
Lalela, Gaza - we carry you in bone
and breath."
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