I Am

 Poem by Anne-Marie Derése, translated by Judith Skillman.


I am the red brand
on the shoulder of the condemned,
the gallows and the rope,
the ax and the block,
the whip and the cross.
 
I am the lion's tooth
in the flesh of the gazelle.

In my veins I have
the blood of the slave trader.
 

Hangman,
I have deserved the hunger of the wolves.
 

My victims have left me nothing
but their deaths.

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