West Papua Will Be Free... Poem by Black Consciousness Poetry BCP

This is Papua and you treat us like dogs, is this the savagery of Indonesia? You invaded our land with guns blazing, others weakened our psychology with religious rhetoric, our women on the floor you throw them like dogs, raping them in from of us the same way you raping our land beneath our feet. You have cracked the skull of our elderly, and by killing them destroy our temples of knowledge, didn't you know they were our walking libraries.

We cried out for help, humanity has withheld its hand, its voice is as still as the night in the desert, those whose souls we saved in days gone by seem to have lost sight, and their hears cannot hear our screams, African the land of people of our kind has not might to rescue us, she too wrestle with the enemy for the same reasons our lives our taken. Our freedom is on the way though at the distance, but it's on its way.

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