Blinded by silence | Write Out Loud

Blinded by silence | Write Out Loud

We turned about 

Without giving a shout,

As six million Jews died.

Disinclined protesters

While the ancestors 

Of six million Jews, cried.

 

Those same eyes blinded

Their minds unminded

To the Rohingya genocide.

Two million fled

Twenty-five thousand bled

Girls raped, then cast aside.

 

And mute to a Chinese abomination 

Uyghurs’ enforced sterilisation,

One million lives waived.

Three million ‘re-educated’

Countless annihilated 

Over five million enslaved.

 

History will show how with flexed claws,

Our violent, introspective world waged wars, 

Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran hammered.

As if the Christians and Jews, flashing sabres

Had a divine right to choose their neighbours,

Has to be Jesus or Moses, but not Muhammad.

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