Knee on a neck,
Match poised to strike,
With a final exhale,
Flames did ignite.
A firestorm erupted,
Fervent movement did arise,
Suffocated by a tsunami,
Of "All Lives Matter" cries.
Abusive power wears many masks,
Yet speaks a single tongue,
A requiem of callousness,
Tide of lives wrung.
Seized, silenced, deprived of voice,
Crushed by tempest creed,
As the faceless gasp for breath,
Dragged beneath waves of greed.
Palestinians butchered by golem rampage,
While leaders fiddle in their gilded bubble,
Israel's broken promises rain down,
As last dregs of conscience soak into the rubble.
Students denouncing genocide,
Abducted off streets like trash,
Futures and rights vanished,
Disappeared in a Gestapo flash.
Ukrainians in scorched ruins stand tall,
Courage unwavering, despite the pain,
Their sacrifice met with jealous disdain,
As an American führer bows to Putin's reign.
Sudanese starve on apathy alone,
Wasting away to hollow bone,
While the privileged eat cake,
Glutted, glued to their phone.
Immigrants condemned, banished beyond aid,
Hostages snatched to a circus cage,
Mercy extinguished; identity stripped,
Erased by those with contrived rage.
Tiny tots seen, once heard, now lost,
Voiceless, cast out with derision,
Birthright a farce, a due process mirage,
Dispelled with coldness and precision.
Judges defied, jailed with contempt,
Justice held ransom, chained to the bell,
As cracked scales teeter on the brink,
Ears crane for liberty's death knell.
If my conviction of unity,
Is intolerable sedition,
Call me a TERRORIST,
I embrace the affliction.
Truth-teller in an age of lies,
Empathetic when compassion dies,
Revolutionary when liberties decline,
Relentless when cruelty is the infection by design,
Outspoken when silence is the golden law,
Resilient by refusing to withdraw,
Inclusive when others build walls of divide,
Solidarity with the denigrated caste aside,
Transformative in spirit that cannot abide.
The most sacred amendment, first on the parchment,
Will withstand your calculated bombardment,
If TERRORIST I must be, in your criminalized fiction,
I'll wear your pointy yellow badge with distinction.
While propaganda devours,
Truth strikes with bolt and thunder,
Electrified, embers take flight,
Defiance echoes, never again forced under.
