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Earthright Anthem (Sonnet 2613-2615)
The soil is older than every border,
older than flags and state decree.
Earth is property of no brute empire,
nor promised prize of manifest atrocity.
No badge can baptize brutality,
no holy water can bleach blood stains -
the land remembers the salt of tears
of every people ever slain.
Women are indigenous to their bodies,
Palestinians are native to their home.
Privilege cannot buy righteousness,
nor can blind faith redraw chromosome.
When erasure becomes ape religion,
mutiny becomes human right.
Stars that burn for others,
wither in body, but live in light.
From Palestine to Kashmir to America,
every land shall be humanized,
not by bullets and atom bombs,
but by atomic people against the lies.
Acts of terror by governments
are still terror all the same,
genocide wrapped in diplomacy
is just murder by another name.
Divide and rule, marks the animal,
unite and integrate, makes humankind.
We are stardust come alive -
unbent, unflinching, borderless mind.
Human is the bridge, and bridge is the truth.
Nobody is undocumented, on a planet built on loot.
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