The Black Swan Is Hovering Over Us Poem by Ali Rahimi

When the black swan arrives,
When the train leaves the station,
And it already has, people, you and I,
We can hear the coming, the coming: clicker clicker…cli cliii.
Black swan comes of nothing,
Out of ignorance, oblivion, recklessness, inertia,
Remember J.F. Kennedy assassination? ,
The black swan is hovering over us,

All wars have been fought over gold,
2008 global financial crisis,
MH37 Malaysian airline went out missing,
Island Diego Garcia American navy base controlled by economic devices?
The black swan is hovering over us,
9/11, two planes crashed into two towers,
The third one collapsed, not hit by any planes,
They still haven’t found the gold,
It vanished, where the heck is it now?
The black swan is hovering over us all

Syrian Crisis, Cyprus, Portugal, Italy, Greece,
If you open the eyes of one person, you have done the job,
The world is the country, you are my brother, my sister,
It’s time to wake up, wake up brother, sister,
I fear nothing, fear nothing whatsoever, I ruin fear,
Grab fright by throat, butcher terror, stab it right in the heart,
Rub its nose in the mud,
Yes, fear is the opposite of faith,
Faith is the unseen, the substance of what you hope for,
The black swan is hovering over us,

I put a torch in your hand, you put a torch in her hand,
Light will come, light, light, inspiration and hope,
Criminals who have suppressed Asia, Africa
Shall die a slow lingering painful death,
The black swan is hovering over us,
The tower of Babel, Apartheid,
The system of state-enforced racial segregation,
Crimea and Ukraine, Putin and Arseny Yatseniuk,
The Rise and Fall of Viktor Yanukovych,
The black swan is hovering over us,

Nuclear proliferation under international law? !
Mass genocide, ethnic cleansing and hunger on valentines day? ! ! ,
Political racial repression under Olympics in Russia? ! ! ,
Banning twitter in Turkey? ! !
Start with nothing and end with nothing,
Such is the logic of our birth,
Tough times never last, tough people do,
Unite, the world unite!
The black swan is hovering over us,

The Holocaust, Hiroshima, the Crusade,
Stalin running amok, Fallujah and the resurgence of Al Qaeda in Iraq,
Earthquake and tsunami devastating the Fukushima,
Gender based violence and rape in India,
The black swan is hovering over us,

The Chinese famine, American civil war,
George W. Bush, Saddam, The destruction of Pompeii,
The fall of Constantinople,
Hearken, listen, beware!
The black swan is hovering over us,

Hey you! standing out there wearing that uniform!
History repeats itself,
History has a bizarre uncanny crafty nature of cruelly repeating itself,
and you’ll die a pathetic disgraceful death,
at the hands of those holding the torch of wisdom and insight,
Holding the torch, the torch, the torch,
The black swan is hovering over us.