Sunday 22 June 2008

izpoetry...

Excerpt from: “Iznibz,and the tale of the Journeyman's Pen.”

To whom it may concern,
we are not your collateral,your goods or your chattels, nor are we your slaves or servants.
When you think or speak of Human Rights, they are also our rights.
When you insist on equality then we insist that you be equal to us.
Do not flatter yourself with the self appeasing deception of your own perceived goodness.
There is no mirror great enough to reflect the unified potential of our collective humanity.
We do not crave your condescending tolerance, you need ours,we are the majority in the world.
We do not seek to dominate, without wisdom your power is worthless.
We do not cultivate armies of occupation, nor generate nuclear powered propaganda.
We contain the meaning of Peace,without which there is no meaning to Life.
We are not neutral,we do not support your wars,nor are we distracted from our steady progress by the self indulgent feeding frenzy of compulsive consumerism.
Our austerity is not poverty.We have no hidden agenda, no ulterior motive.
The path we tread the saints have trod before.
We have no master and ask for nothing.
Civilisation is our code,it is not written in a book.We do not wait for orders, our intelligence is civilian.
We are of one mind, we are in accord.
The sustainable future is our domain.
All lies will perish,only truth will remain.
We need no opinion,we are the way forward.
Progress is every direction at once, Chaos or the Eightfold Path.
Love will not wait to be abused by mere tolerance, we didn’t enslave you nor did we slaughter you by the millions-we may never be like you but you may become more like us.

Don’t flush your potential down the drain in the name of the love of an easy life.
We cannot be blamed for the sins committed in your name.
We are all responsible for the future of the world, it’s only big enough if we share it.
If you continue to slaughter the saints and the innocents only the devils will remain to reign in a desert of ignorance.
We were here before you came, we’ll be here when you’ve gone.
We are the people of the world reclaiming our rightful heritage.
We are the diasporans displaced by your Empire shagging Glory.
We remember God, God remembers us, mutual regard mutual respect.
One is equal to one without division.
Without our co-operation there is no way forward.
There is no way back.
Join us, or perish by your own hand.

Tullycrine, County Clare. 2003

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