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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 o...