It Was You Who Started It Poem by Suki Nakamura

it was you who started it,
years, and years back, you do not anymore remember,

but i still remember that pain
that insult
that oppression and for years i grow to have this horn
this tongue of the snake
this scales of the crocodile
this sharp teeth of the shark

i have traveled the oceans and the mountains
i have searched the forest and the
all the crevices down under the earth

for years, in the silence of my pain
now, i shall face you

we shall not fight, we shall be brothers.