Common Enemy Poem by H E Alexander

Your skin is a different colour to mine, so I will blow out your brains.
I will cut your throat because you talk with a tongue that I don't understand.
I will strangle you with my bare hands until you breathe not one breath more.
Just because you are from a neighbouring land.

I will bomb your cities because you have faith in a different God.
And you, you may believe in my God, but you don't worship the same.
So your innocents I will scatter throughout your bloody streets.
You only have yourself to blame.

I detest you, I despise you, simply because of who you love.
There is not enough fucking room in my beloved world for you.
You may be accepted by some demented strains of our society,
but I will not change my view.

Those races who don't accept our way of life, we will systematically starve
and punish those peoples when our precious rules they refuse to obey.
All of us here hate all of you there and thus we grow stronger,
since you are our common enemy.

So we will butcher your brothers and you will slay our sons.
Our bloods will merge and flow in streams of destruction.
We'll bask in our great glories and disguise our shameful defeats.
Hate will prosper; all love will be gone.