It’s not right that the children of our mothers

be forced to listen to strange hymns

other than those heard since childhood

or at  puberty’s school and on the land where they were born

they should never be driven away

from the ancestral place where their grandparents lived

and spent their entire lives burying their hands in the humus of the earth

no people should ever usurp

the place of those who were born free and of any skin color

and profess any other religion

whether jewish  protestant  orthodox  or  christian

and choose to pray to a god or gods

with a different face before the diaphanous face of uncertainty

no one should drag their feet

carrying their dead children wrapped in white sheets in their arms

to bury them in the dry earth

– no one –

no people deserves the humiliation

of bowing down before a foreign power

and not have a right to defend themselves

even to those who claim to govern them

and often subject them to abject tyranny

and dependence, defrauding them of their will

taking them to a field where the smell of death

drives them to kill those who stand up to them

– an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth –

and if they do, they don’t even understand why

because they weren’t given the right to choose

and they are nothing more than puppets

swinging on strings

in the hands of tyrants who move them

according to their inhuman intentions

and deep apathy for the suffering of their fellow being

rats swinging in golden chairs

illuminated by crystal chandeliers

drinking champagne and other expensive wines

– indifferent –

Oh not even the birds are free

because in the space where they fly

there are eagles watching over their wings

– to block the flight of their freedom