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  The Poetry Society of Virginia: Michal Mahgerefteh







To the Owner(s) of Sin

are you the seed of Abraham?

you who is the animating spirit
in the wheel of his community

you who has a Hawkeye to see
everything secretly in the inner most privacy

you who has ears like a funnel to catch
the most confidential whispers of the deepest night

you who is both a fiery flame and un-still water
that fire will not burn nor waters drown

you who his wailing hate mounts into a crescendo
of accusations directed against liberationists

you who had embittered his life
from the hour when he first saw daylight

you who his lunacy-struck roots in minds
and have zealotry souls under his impious feet

are those your followers?

those who make the sky a tent over their heads
and use the earth as bounty before them

those who carry their hatred, envy,
and their bickering, rivalries, and petty deals

those who traverse the whole world
without regard to the grandeur of nature

those who separate themselves from the populace
and the beauty of their own mountains and plains

those who sit in secret places
of courtyards and murder the innocent

are you the one?

are you the one who lashed an attack on the innocent
inducing a whole city into motion

are you the one
who raised a great ruckus between
morning and afternoon prayer

are you the one
who created a haste on confusion
and discredit in the central believe of democracy

are you the one
whose isolation and revolution
attempt to revive Sodom and Gomorra

are you the one
who imposed sweat on sovereignty
to the point of your own death

are you the one
who is blind to the vast world
beyond his faith in the of Allah

are you the one?

(why God do you stand far hiding
yourself in time of trouble?
Be exalted in Your strength
we will sing and chant of Your power)

fear Him now seed of Abraham

the earth's kings set themselves
and the rulers take counsel together

you have dug a pit and hollowed it
and then fell into the ditch which you have made

your mischief will return upon your own head
and on your own skull your violence will come down

your will fall by your own counsels
for they have rebelled against the civilized world

speakers of deception - man of murder and deceit
your name will blot out forever and ever

you will cry out but there will be no answer
you will be like the dust before the wind

nations will search for you till none is found
so the lamb peacefully will lay down to sleep

if not today, tomorrow,
one day...a second day...a third day...


by
Michal Mahgerefteh







The Poetry Society of Virginia

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