Who will speak up?

No one speaks up

However outrageous the act

A rape really

Of a people

Yet the silence is deafening

I guess I must

To mark the occasion

Of another nation

Biting the dust

Say some words

But then again maybe

I won’t get a visa to the United States

No more

So stutter

And then realize

When it is the fall that is what is left

It matters how you take it

How you kiss the ground

Or are put into it, naked

Many years later

They will make a documentary

If you fought well

Someone might just tape it

A memory, for now people will rape it

Your land

Who you are will either past into eternity

Or a void

Who will speak up in the end determines

Your history.