12 x Hiroshima
“Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” - Matthew 25:40
12 x Hiroshima
“Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”
- Matthew 25:40
if today you don’t cry
then when?
if not for us
for whom?
sacrificed guinea pigs in the war laboratory
we fought with bare hands
we resisted
hidden in the ruins
we bore hunger
loss
twelve times hiroshima in half a manhattan island place *
we bore epithets
our babies are terrorists
our girls are terrorists
our every breath is terrorist
you watched our blood spilled in 4k
with guts stretched out between the ruins
indecently
while eating popcorn
in this live streamed theater of gore
humans watching what inhumanity can do
we are the last pillars of humanity
the last resistance of a human heart
before oblivion
without us
you are nothing
we are the last thread
thin like a hair
holding everybody together
you could not survive our loss
just as you could not survive
losing your own soul
if it wasn’t for us
you wouldn’t know what true hate is
without us
you would think the devil had taken his retreat
the great trickster shows its teeth
biting into our living flesh
tearing our limbs apart
we fight for humanity
while humanity is watching
we don’t sleep
waiting for the next bomb
while you sleep in your cozy bed
we barely eat
barely drink water
our children die
because they lack one hundred grams of powdered milk
we live like animals
in a laboratory cage
we are born in inferno
but even then
we are still human
we don’t hate anybody
we leave the hate for the other side of the fence
we have nothing
but our hearts in our hands
the coat torn
just like our houses
a mixture of concrete and iron and earth and blood
we fight the fight
we walk the walk
you watch us die
you shut up
afraid
in the world of nobodies
we are the heroes
the ones who resisted
for humanity
for civilization
for love
for peace
for self love
for self determination
for our families
for our dead families
for our neighbors
for our lost neighbors
for our people
for our land
we will all be free
from the Lamartine three
to the sacred Hapi river,
from Gaia
to mare nostrum.
we will be free,
from our ancestors
to our children’s children,
we will be free,
from the earth
to God,
we will be free
like a heart that loves
And the breath of the Lord
waving above the waters
on the first day
we are the oppressed humanity
the good that refuses to die
the heart of millennia of the human race
we will not bend
we will not abandon
we will fight for peace
for dignity
Listen:
Never!
You will never lose us!
For we are you.
You are us.
Idem,
We are Humanity.
Break History,
Break the fence.
Unum serva.
Omnes.