Kai Michael Neumann Poet Free verse

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Trans-generational guilt describes a psychological phenomenon, in which later generations carry feelings of guilt and responsibility for the deeds of their ancestors. It is more than an academic pursuit and well documented that, for example, post war Germans are prone to mental and social illness, linked to crimes against humanity, perpetrated by the German Nation.

Forgivenness starts with acceptance of responsibility and I wish (in no way mininizing atrocities committed by the Third Reich and by German individuals), that politicians across the globe would admitt all the genocides and slaughter, which has been comitted by their People. 

Let us not forget the many human beings harmed by colonialism, hegemony and military greed over the centuries and maybe, just maybe scape a new vision for the future. 

Lot of love to you all.

Rough Landscape

Rough Landscape

In my mind the landscape of Guernica features high on the many
crowbars to unmask that inner prison of conscience and humanity

So many scenes of destruction with no predominant hierarchy of evil
no glass ceiling of guilt so many tapestries of loving lives abandoned

A museum piece in Madrid with no doubt yet an exhibition of madness
displayed on the altar of what we as people have become and behold

Life would not have me nor would I have my life if my father had not
escaped what now is Kaliningrad on one of the last boats ‘cross the sea

As a German court has decreed soldiers are murderers and my Dad
has therefore been one of those martial slayers in history’s temple

There is not much left of the City of Prussian ambition and blasts
from the past just mainly a naval harbour and renegade socialist pride

A rebuilt cathedral and memories of amber and marzipan shared but
I hear Hitler Youths shouting their ‘Heils’ in absurd pubertal screams

For my own sanity and resolution of trans-generational disgrace I need
to visit my beginnings to start telling the story how to scape inner Peace

01st May 2017

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