a brutality past
preserves my future,
preserves my family’s future
while another
destroys a nation
that inhabits
this haunted world
with the souls
of those who would have been
silently walking alongside
those of us who are
a brutality past
preserves my future,
preserves my family’s future
while another
destroys a nation
that inhabits
this haunted world
with the souls
of those who would have been
silently walking alongside
those of us who are
A Useful Idiot 