Nationalist China Poems

I Am the Voice of Your Conscience

  
     I am the voice of your conscience
       You would bury my memory
     Erase me from your history books
       But I refuse to go away, I refuse to die 

     Here I am today, thousands of years after 
       you would have buried me in Modi’in… 
     in Jerusalem… at the tip of Mohammed’s sword… 
       in Torquemada’s Spain… in Luther's ‘Reformation’

     In your swarming Eastern and Western European ghettos
       in Czarist Russia, in Stalin’s USSR, in Hitler’s Third Reich
     in Poland, Lithuania, Egypt, Syria Lebanon, in ‘Palestine’ too… 
       Yet I, the Jew, voice of your conscience, stand my ground

     To remind you that my unshakeable love of God and my People Israel
       is stronger than your visceral hatred of my redoubtable faith...
     For 'Mother Russia,’ 'Nationalist China,’ 'America the Free’ will go the way 
       of Ancient Greece and Babylon ~ but I shall still be around…