*HOW KIND*

AMIN KASSAM
A poet from Kenya; his work has been widely published in Africa and
broadcast on the BBC World Service

how kind

compassion
has changed
meaning

first
starve
maim
kill

in the name
of peace

then
allow
a little food

and call
it mercy

so kind
It is not a crime by Amin Kassam

it is not a crime
to force people
into a house
and shell it

to bomb mosques
and schools

not a crime
to shoot doctors
trying to reach
children
covered in blood
near slaughtered parents

when the seeds planted
by bullets shells bombs
flower and
produce pods
incandescent as phosphorus

when they explode
roaring defiance

that will be the crime

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