Wednesday's Verse - Je Suis Charlie

This week’s verse moves from a cautionary poem celebrating the New Year to a verse inspired by the unity that came out of the Je Suis Charlie terror attacks of 2015. It is taken from 366 Days of Poetry, a collection of mixed-genre poetry released in 2016.

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Je Suis Charlie


Je suis Charlie.

Je suis Charlie!

Je suis Charlie.

And damn the world to hell!

We must all unite despite the plight

that sent us to our knees.

They called for us by name.

They called us from our lives.

And they murdered us in cold blood

because of their souls’ plight.

They killed us for what we drew,

and all the things we wrote.

They killed us in their Allah’s name

for the things we said.

They claimed we did defame

the prophet that they followed,

a man that’s long been dead.

And they were not the only ones,

who cried out for our heads,

but still we drew and wrote,

and made commentary again,

and asked the world to think about

the values and the claims

that those in power and leadership

had o’er the world then made.

And instead of driving

the world into a shell

built of fear of bullets,

they broke their unholy spell

of terror in that all who heard

of the deed that they had done

came together, in spite of what they thought,

believed, or felt, on what we’d drawn,

and, ignoring differences that might once have made them fight,

they stood together in memoriam

and defied the terror’s might.

And for that we thank you,

for no other wreath we need

when the world can stand together

in spite of different race and creed,

and instead of crumbling,

not one is left alone

to stand against the darkness

that came upon our homes.



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You can find the first two poetry collections at the links below - although there are plans to reissue them with more genre-appropriate covers in the future. The third collection will be released later in the year.



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