Must I Let This Pass Poem by Phillip Nine Mafunga

I speak your language
I eat your foreign food
I wear your clothes
Am I not a human clone?

I now burn the bodies of my dead
Meanwhile, worship your dead as saints
While I kill the unborn babies and call it freedom
Am I not an automaton?

Your history is sacrosanct
While mine is barbaric and demonic
I give my children your civilized names
Yet my names were full of meanings and oracles

I have embraced your systems of government
With it, I have become corrupt and morally decrepit
Now from the gutters I eat
Must I let this pass?
@27 August 2022