Remember…
The political prisoners
Their mangled bodies
And distraught minds
In torture chambers
Remember…
The murdered farmers
Workers, priests, lawyers,
Doctors, writers, artists
Remember…
The peasants forced
Out of their villages
While their homes
Burned behind them
Remember…
The rape and plunder
Of indigenous lands
The death of forests
The poisoned fields
Remember…
The three thousand
Pairs of shoes
While millions
Walked the earth unshod
Remembe
r…
The nation’s wealth
Stashed in foreign shores
While hunger
Stalked the land
– 27 February 2022