Reckoning

Your day of reckoning is come
For the atrocities you committed
For the screams you evoked
From the conquered race

Remember the nights so long ago
When you birthed fireworks in the sky
With your screaming birds of steel
Remember the red ejaculations of death

Remember the screams of men
Who tried to save their hamlets?
So cosy snug against hillocks
From your spreading fire

Remember the shrieks of girls
You grabbed from their mothers arms
To use as wipers of your underbelly
To discard when their life were snuffed

Remember the barter of souls
Between you and your devil
Atrocities unperceived
Were we then the savages

Brown people living among peaceful gardens
Etching a living off the bountiful land
We did not covet our neighbour’s goods
Or stood at yours and demanded food

Thus now the reckoning is come
Behold the tsunamis
Behold the storms
Behold the cyclones

The wealth of your people will dwindle
The health of your people will shrink
The might of your knowledge
Will not buy you an inch of life

The Rising Sun shall not rise any higher
Your land shall be buffeted by war
From within and without
For you have been cursed

That day long ago
By the tears and fears of my people
Through the chants and incantations
of shamans and priestesses

A new day is dawn
The meek and weak
Will inherit the land
The mighty will have fallen.