Listen, because I’m begging you to

Throughout history, 
we have always had some conquest 
in mind. 
Nation building, Russification, Sinicization 
Manifest Destiny, Colonialism: 
God gave me this land.  
 
We can sit and deliberate on left 
or right, west or east, us or them. 
But they are us, we are them 
we fight for separate similar goals. 
 
I hate them. Their always harming, 
always self-victimizing, taking, 
stealing, pillaging. They need to be stopped. 
 
It makes me want to join 
It makes me want to stop 
It makes me seize, scream, 
gasp for air and cling at 
what humanity we had left. 
 
You need to fight  
you need to stop 
and think, analyse  
what and why. 
Who am I, who are you? 
Do you know your own face? 
Do you know whose faces they were? 
Do you hide, sulk in shadow, too afraid 
of what you’ve done? A bastardisation  
of bravery you promote. 
 
Ill tell you why you should listen to me. 
Listen because I’m begging you to. 
I want you to breathe, to eat, to feel the bitter  
cold of winter and the infernos of summer.  
I want you to live and love, 
A gift given to us 
Through existence. 
 
Throughout history, 
We always felt. 
We always lived. 
We always loved.