Anti-speak
Sundering people by race, religion
Or some other such arbitrary means,
Brings its horrors to our doom scrolling screens:
Bombed-out news bytes from a bloodied region.
Who were victims become perpetrators,
Those once herded into camps will become
Herders, with power to strike their critics dumb
By framing them as virulent haters.
The persecuted dead will be recalled
By those who consider themselves chosen,
Their determination certain, frozen,
As if humanity has failed and stalled.
Not one state! Nor two states! A better call
To end war and terror, ‘No States At All!’
D. A.