Before They Kill Us All

Before They Kill Us All
© Surazeus
2024 03 21

They want to exterminate our whole clan 
from vibrant passion of life-spinning Earth, 
and erase stories of our homeless tribe 
from the ancient book of mountains and seas, 
so we must defend our lives from their hate 
and kill them first before they kill us all. 

Hunted for centuries across strange lands 
far from the homeland our fathers designed, 
we escape their swords in the wilderness, 
yet long for lush valleys our mothers tilled, 
so we must live with compassionate hope 
and kill them first before they kill us all. 

Thick grapevines we planted with bleeding hands 
in fertile soil that gave our bodies life 
still grow entangled in our lonely hearts 
though we wander far from vales of lost homes, 
so we must plant more vines in foreign fields 
and kill them first before they kill us all. 

Beneath cool shade in groves of olive trees 
we gathered round tables of faith to feast, 
and by deep sea that ever calls our names 
we sang solemn psalms of trust in the Sky, 
so we must feast and sing in these strange lands 
and kill them first before they kill us all. 

We built new homes in cities far from home 
and raised our families in gardens of fruit, 
but they attacked us and drove us away 
to wander as strangers in these strange lands, 
so we must return to our first homeland 
and kill them first before they kill us all. 

Surrounding us in ghettos of despair, 
they trap us with high fences of barbed wire, 
then, sending us in trains to prison camps, 
they gas our souls in chambers of contempt, 
so we must go back to where we began 
and kill them first before they kill us all. 

Returning to space of our first homeland 
where bones of our ancestors form the hills, 
we drive squatters from homes our fathers built, 
and chase thieves from gardens our mothers tilled, 
so we must raise flag of our haven state 
and kill them first before they kill us all. 

Safe in Promised Land our First Father found, 
based on promise from Spirit of the Stars, 
we dwell surrounded by thousands of tribes 
who want to exterminate our whole clan, 
so we claim our space on life-spinning Earth 
and kill them first before they kill us all.