What Fear?
by; Mahnaz Badihian
Painting by Mahnaz Badihian
They always scared us of poverty
Now what is left to be scared of?
We are all poor together
They always scared us from breaking laws
What fear?
They broke all the laws in front of our eyes
And the world was witnessing
They scared us from homelessness
What now?
We are all homeless
They scared us with blood and death everyday
What fear?
We see blood and killing and terror
In our media everyday enough that
Now we are used to seeing the killing and bombing
On our TV as a routine day by day movie
They scared us of left becoming right and
Right becoming left
What now?
That neither left nor right can solve the big human misery
Now our only fear should be
Separation of our hands
Separation of our voice
Voice of 99%
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