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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