Faint Echoes
Faint echoes of past cultures
Resound through our language.
Cultures long gone,
Decimated,
Conquered, enslaved and eradicated.
Tribal humans,
We plunder and destroy.
Extinction is slow.
We make it fast –
Bringing gifts
Of disease,
And advanced technology.
Like arrogant gods,
Believing ourselves superior,
Believing our rights
Are bestowed by gods from above,
We ransack, rape, torture
And destroy.
All that are left are the vestiges,
In words
That we have purloined
And now claim as our own.
Opher – 4.8.2020