Edge of Humanity

Our common ground
borders
this mass grave
in front of us.

(Cold)

    Do I assume
too much:
    is it not

(Cold)

our common ground?
    Tell me…
having seen

(Cold) 

images of dead children
in Gaza,
    can you imagine
this trench filled

(Cold) 

    with skin & bone Jews
found at Auschwitz
& other death camps?

(Cold) 

    Imagine 
North American Natives
marched to death 

(Cold)

    from Mississippi
to Oklahoma
thrown in?

    Have you heard
of The Trail of Tears?

(Cold)   

    Could you see 
Black chattel slaves
lynched & charred
mixed in?

(Cold)

    Could you see
yourself
down there?

(Cold)

    We may be
at the same edge,
my friend, 

(Cold)

    hearing a call
for a more
militant
humanist resistance…
 
historical cure
for monsters.