Karma

 

This is karma you see.

How could it not be?

A country built on stolen land and slaughtered people,

cities constructed on sacred sites and burial grounds.

How could it not be karma?

Pale  male immigrants wanting the freedom to worship and live

as they wished

now, 248 years later

pale male  immigrants want to deny others the freedom to worship and live

as they wish.

Now, 248 years later

the descendants of these pale male  immigrants 

want to burn away the constitution,

outlaw science,

bind and gag women,

annihilate anyone different.

Maybe the natural human state 

is one of hatred and war,

a giant trading game  of fleeting power and riches

for a  quick and pointless death.

I'd say the joke was on them

for all the power and wealth

cannot be taken past the grave.

But the joke is on all of us.

This too, is karma.

CHM

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