Maria Egel writes

TERRORISTS

With you at the helm we have become terrorists

we see the hidden shadows, black teeth dripping with greed

and so does the world.

You spout forth words of love and freedom

while tightening the noose, aiming to maim.

Sanctity of life you preach

protector of sterile ova, saved in test tubes

waiting to be flushed into the sea

while innocence is fodder for your guns.

You promise progress and democracy

while doling out despair.

How do you outrun the nightmares of your sleep?

We have become docile cowards.

Not for the first time in the history of man.

But, it is all for the betterment of humankind you say,

No, it is just terror

hiding under the mantle of different colors.

It went from hooded white

scurrying like rats to the pitch black night

to the philosophy of “red”

and its menacing echos

to sharp greys and black boots,

trampling all decency

to black figures, strapped with pounds of death

and now,

to all hues of brown and green,

the colors of our mother earth

AND SHE KEEPS ON WEEPING