• Why my notebook has been empty

    It is Tearstained From seeing Bloodstained Sheets and streets And flour sacks And empty pots And bloated bellies And gaunt faces And sunken ribcages And trembling unblinking children And split skulls And spilled guts And limbs gathered in carrier bags And corpse After corpse After corpse After corpse After corpse After corpse After— So many

  • 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