You Have Forgotten

Lest we forget, 
You say each year. 
Never again, too. 
As you wear your poppies 
And lay your wreaths 
And judge those who 
Choose not to join you. 

Lest we forget. 

But when you are the ones 
Bankrolling a genocide, 
Dehumanising a nation, 
Ignoring massacres and starvation, 
Propagandising for perpetrators, 
Silencing reporters, 
Criminalising protestors, 
Demonising a faith and its followers, 
Scapegoating migrants, 
Rewriting history, 
Exploiting suffering, 
Trampling on the memory 
Of those who sacrificed,
We are not the ones 
That need reminding. 

Never again, you say. 
Lest we forget, too. 
It is not we who have forgotten. 
It is you.