“World is wider than white textbooks can contain, Justice is too sacred for imperials to grasp. While many a offspring are righting the wrongs, there are plenty who're still stuck in the past.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“My America fosters the
spirit of self-correction,
Your America lies in the
continuation of exploitation.
My England lives in a willful
drive for making amends,
Your England lies in deliberate
denial of historic mess.
My Australia battles to
assimilate those once wronged,
Your Australia boasts proudly
atrocious plunders as tradition.
I wish I could tell you, you and I
are the same, but we are not.
My earth is a celebration of people,
Your earth is chained to dead customs.”
Source: The Divine Refugee
“Blood and Blunder
(The Sonnet)
The world is filled with atrocious holidays,
Columbus Day, Australia Day and Thanksgiving.
Holidays steeped in blood and blunder, are
passed on proudly as occasion of merrymaking.
Imagine celebrating 9/11 as a day of freedom,
Yet colonizers do exactly that without shame.
And these animal holidays are a thousand times
more atrocious than the crash of nine eleven.
Nine eleven is a ghastly stain upon history,
there is no doubt or question about that.
But what about the infinitely larger stains,
inflicted, respected and celebrated by cowards!
Human rights can never prevail till we
dismantle every false celebration.
Animals find honor in blood and blunder,
We become human through course correction.”
Source: The Divine Refugee
“When natives are treated alien,
and aliens take over as master,
cultures uprooted by legal decree,
honor is stolen as spoils of war,
defying the delirium of king and country,
rise and stand human against imperial larceny.”
Source: Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations
“When Cindy’s crying slowed to convulsive gasps, she picked up Floppy and they got in bed and she looked at the picture of her and her father at Lake Barkley. “Good night, Daddy. I love you!”
Source: Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings
“Alien Native
(The Sonnet)
When natives are treated alien,
and aliens take over as master,
cultures uprooted by legal decree,
honor is stolen as spoils of war,
empires erected on blood and bones,
when prosperity is rooted in plunder,
homes are stripped of hopes and dreams,
violations feed the palace of blunder,
when baboons are adorned with bootleg,
each rock is drenched in bloodshed,
when festivities thrive on thievery,
correction is cursed as blasphemous,
defying the delirium of king and country,
rise and stand human against imperial larceny.”
Source: Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations
“But the fact is, like my mom, most Filipinos prefer to keep history in the dark or, in these days, sold to the highest bidder.
Who can blame them.
It's kind of painful to remember.”
Source: La Tercera
“Baa Baa White Sheep
(The Sonnet)
Baa baa white sheep,
have you any wool!
Yes sir, yes sir,
London tower full.
Pull it over your eyes,
or weave it into blanket.
All stink of blood and blunder,
a scent second not even to crumpet.
Imperials rise upon indigenous fall,
declaring themselves as light-bringer.
Native tears form kohinoor on the crown,
Blood is but cologne to the colonizer.
Not all of colonial descent are colonizer,
but those who take pride in the past are.
To these animal ghosts of the human world,
no matter your ethnicity send a get well card.”
Source: Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations
“Deutschland über alles (The Sonnet)
If the germans have no right
to take pride in their past,
neither do the british
or the americans.
In fact, the scale of british and american
atrocities, surpasses the SS many folds.
'Deutschland über alles' is 'jingle bells',
compared to british and american holocaust.
Yet germany had the human decency
to dump its horrific national anthem,
while colonial pride is still dominant,
across much of america and england.
Radical inhumanity warrants radical reparations,
a concept yet foreign to Buck House and Uncle Sam.
When you are the largest manufacturer of massacre,
making amends should be your existential anthem.”
Source: Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations
“Radical inhumanity warrants radical reparations.”
Source: Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations