RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: GENOCIDE
Glorifying Killers
When you glorify a killer
You guarantee the killing will go on
When you turn your back on genocide
The ghosts of genocide remain
Waiting for a chance to rise from the dead
When you rewrite history with lies
History will rise to write the future
Bosnia / Darfur / Rwanda / Cambodia
Each time we are horrified
Each time we swear: Never again!
Yet we return to bear witness
Again and again
We return with our promises
We return with our tears
We return with our rage
We return with our fears
Yet we allow the glorification of killers
We allow the falsification of history
The promise of never again
Begins with the truth
No matter how painful
No matter how hard to bear
The children must learn the truth
My Lai / Sand Creek / Wounded Knee
The truth
The unvarnished truth
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