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Overarching Genocide
Overarching Genocide
Noah built the wooden Ark in his homeland instructed by God
to save his wife three sons and their wives from drowning a life
raft rescue boat of sorts with three decks and only one door and
two of each kind of animal species for rebuilding a habitat once the
floods had receded once the deluge had clearly stated its purpose
Lots of carpentry was involved and grafting and crafting carving out
new beginnings no coincidence maybe that Jesus became a carpenter
much later when he lived the Ark of the Covenant two tables of stone
commanding ten simple rules given to Moses telling us even today what
to do and what not to especially not to kill come hell and high water
Noah and his folks were olden day refugees displaced involuntary
migrants with only one choice to live or to perish make the best of
the threats vagaries of existence the dire message facing extinction
They were given the task to start again from scratch on a fresh even
footing to create new foundations not built on water not on quick sand
When the waters vanished the dust had settled and the door opened
wide the Ark is said to have balanced on the Mountain of Ararat or
maybe Mount Judi in South Eastern Anatolia close to nowadays’ Sirnak
a gruelling hot spot of guns and grenades tanks and fanatical killing with
flash floods of blood commandments forgotten only a trickle of kindness
God’s message was meant to last with Christians Jews and Muslims all
telling the story of the flood Tsunami quaking of earth trembling in awe
taking history and metaphor constitution of rights and of duties from
one place to the next from Ararat in the Armenian genocidal Highlands
to Yerevan Auschwitz Phnom Penh Mosul Sarajewo Kigali and Allepo
God might say ‘told you so but you would not listen’ and so we are
carrying on in our own wayward capricious intolerable disobedience
until we are swept away killing others in cold blood and also ourselves
when climate change melting ice carbon in ozone flood low lands
and self-righteous high grounds when God wants to save all of the lot
Could we not heed the call the signs on the tables life liberty and pursuit
of happiness ‘egalite liberte fraternite’ and apply those principles to
all women children and men many of which are enslaved in hunger
instead loose houses arms legs and dignity and a simple place to be
safe and secure tend to their gardens and families and pray to the God
Who is kind loving and compassionate but instead a deluded torrent of fight
and flight drives humans to give up the ghost or flee for their naked skin on
their impoverished backs in long death marches from Sirnak shelled and
not sheltered by descendants of Noah in dinghies over the seas to Greece
Italy Malta and onwards to a filthy rich Europe that does not contain them
‘It was not me’ who stood by when Ottomans killed Armenian Christians
when Jews Slavs Sinti and Roma were gassed in genocidal crematoria
when Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge assembled mountains of torture and skulls
when Saddam Hussein applied chemical warfare and ethnic cleansing
when Sarajewo was besieged from the hills by Bosnian and Serbian Serbs
When Tutsis were murdered by Hutus in a rage of mindless systematic rape
slaughter mutilation and covered in banana leaves to avoid being spotted
by aerial photography supplied by a fig leaf of conscience draped by a world
refusing to listen to acknowledge chose instead to ignore cast a blind eye
Today it is Syria but let us not forget Yemen Sudan Somalia and the Congo
And ‘it was not me I am merely an innocent bystander’ covered in blood
smirched and discredited disgraced and yet responsible at least by proxy
But who was and is it then failing to act in deed not only in words surely
it is neither Noah who shouldered the oceans who fled and took refuge
nor is it God who’s to blame ‘it is me after all’ who should build Noah’s Ark
Finalised on 27th August 2016
Contest: Take That Dagger From My Heart Please II
First entered into contest 'Noah's Arc
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Kai Michael Neumann
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