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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