Listen Carefully Poem by RIC BASTASA

This is the play of the threat
They will come and kill some of us
And we will kill some of them too
All in self defense

We kill each other, and the hate is rising
We cut each others’ ears
And mutilate innocent bodies
And put on fire the houses
Of our enemies and even neighbors

If we only listen
Someone is laughing
The war is for her benefit
And she is the one who issues the order herself

We have become puppets
And paupers while she and her relatives take the European cruise
Enjoy the banquet
And then reap so many powers because we are blind
And deaf and ignorant of this
Power play