What happens
When you cage a people
Take their children
Take their mothers
Their fathers and brothers
Take their grandparents
Crowd them in cattlecars
Beat them, bury them, gas them
And turn them to ash
Leaving them to the sky’s embrace?

You create a new thing
With iron teeth
With crushing claws
And a claxon cry of –
NEVER AGAIN!

What happens
When you imprison people
When you bomb people
Shoot their children
Shoot their mothers
Their fathers and brothers
Take their grandparents
Force them to the sea
Starve them, bulldoze them
Crush their brittle bones
Leaving them to the earth’s embrace?

You create a new thing…