White Supremacist Terror
White Supremacist Terror
I
There is blindness in the country of light
Where the cataracts of conspiracy
Allow only fear and mistrust
To darken the eyes of many
II
Birds of sky
Beasts of field
All nameless and wild
Until they were brought
Before Adam
Who was given, as we are,
The task of naming
There can be no forgiveness
Without naming the error
white
supremacist
terror
Name it and say it
white
supremacist
terror
III
The eagle’s wing is broken
Flightless upon the rotten oak
The bison lays bleeding
Bitten by the fox
Tornadoes on the prairie
Wildfire in the forest
There can be no healing
Without naming the ailment
IV
Empires fall
They always do
But I’ll be holding you
In the diminishing
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