Wrote this after I saw a video on yotuube. It isn’t a conventional poem or anything to be exact. Just wrote in a short space of time on what I thought about the video in segmented haiku style that is connected together with different “viewings” of the country.
I AM ISRAEL.
I came to a land and claimed it my own.
The people who belonged had no right.
This is my land now.
I razed their villages and erased their history.
A thousand years vanished under my might.
I AM ISRAEL
My people take their homes.
If they stand to fight,
I kill them where they stand;
Men, women, children;
They all die under my hand.
I AM ISRAEL
The world sees what I have done.
The world whispers behind my back.
But the world dare not speak.
They are afraid.
They are afraid of my brother.
I AM AMERICA
I helped my brother gain control.
I spoil him with riches.
I fight his wars.
I feed him with power.
He will grow up to become like me.
I AM AMERICA
I uphold truth, honour, fidelity.
My people uphold their rights.
Yet…
My government caters genocide.
My government abuses rights.
I am my government, I am my people.
I am blind. I am deaf. I am crippled from within.
I AM AMERICA, NO, I AM ISRAEL.
no…
WE ARE ONE.
WE ARE CORRUPT.
WE ARE THE CORRUPTED ONES…
and no one can stop us.
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