by James Miraflor
Evil men.
There might be no hell,
but we'll spit on your graves
forever.
You may not taste
the wrath of the common men
now, nor would your
sons and tens of their
would-be sons, but your
kind would nonetheless
get what is due them, as
it is written in the destiny
of all evil kinds.
Even so, the revenge
will not be painful,
unlike the brutality you did
to us. The revenge of
the common man will be
straightforward and unpretentious;
there will be no triumphant
executions, no pugnacious
castigations.
Our revenge will be simple,
as the punishment of history had
always been simple:
No one will remember your
estate. The concept of crime against
property will be forgotten.
There will be no transgression
against privately-owned governments,
no price-tag for, or rationing of,
human right to dignity.
No one will remember your
system, as your injustice would
have ended with our desire for
reprisal. There will be no
need for state-imposed death,
no "rehabilitation" to any
ideology, no totalitarian
control for capitalist "liberty"
or socialist "equality".
No one will remember your
kind. The idea of an oppressing
class, in any of its name, will be
alien, even unimaginable. By then
men will live, in solidarity
and freedom, the logic of the
market and revolution replaced by
the language of peace.
And no. No one will remember
evil. For your species, the embodiment
of everything that is evil, would
have ceased to exist.
And that would be our vilest spit
on your graves.
Friday, August 31, 2007
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4 comments:
how vivid..
:D but are there really evil men? or just men with evil deeds and thoughts, harmful cultures and systems?
perhaps it'd do us well not to forget. for peace to reign we must remember. there's no trashing away painful pasts, and those that made it happen, including us. :D
Even more evil are those who slaughter millions in the name of a radiant future that will never happen.
^ The poem is also against them. You will see if you are less blinded than you are with the capitalist promise of flowing milk and honey.
Or maybe not, since the slaughtering of billions through starvation in the defense of a "free world" that is already here (in contrast with the radiant future, which "will never happen"), is much less evil.
No wonder religion works in your ideology. Both of them are very promising paradigms, the_great_sage.
Peace, man. :-)
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