Capsize Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

Capsize

Migration, Human Rights,
Politicians that make war,
Bullies of left and right,
Investors that make arms,
And victims on the run,
Escapees from the bombs,
In a vessel, were capsized!

I went to where had been,
Such cases, I have seen!

Powerful and rich bullies,
Presidents, officers,
Coup makers, seat seekers,
They tried to walk on,
Immigrants on the run,
But currents and the waves,
In the sea, of the water,
Stepped in, showed power!

Both looted and looters,
Shared the same freedom,
And worries, and fears,

A learned among them,
Talked to me, explained,
A word and its changes,
Meanings and definitions.

"I am an immigrant,
With roots in Zanzibar."

"In the old ancient days,
A Persian Emperor, Xerxes,
Used our land as a passage,
They found us all Blacks,
So, called us ‘Zangi-Bar, '
But lacking ‘G, ' the Arabs'
Invaders pirated the slaves,
And called us ‘Zanzibar, '
Europe followed the case."