Shylock Poem by Freeyad Ibrahim

By Freeyad Ibrahim

Muhammad called Jews the brothers of monkeys,
and massacred them brutely.

Middle Age English banned the Jews from entering England
and deported them, indiscriminately.

Hitler wanted to uproot them completely.

Charles Dickens portrayed them as
thieves and stingy, accusingly.

Shakespeare described them in the person of Shylock
as wicked and Usurers, indistinguishably.

Christopher Marlow depicted them
in the person of Barabbas
as wicked and miserly.

Out all these accusations emerged stronger souls
And most powerful minds,
Unified, fortified, they acted secretly

Both the Jew Elbert Einstein
And the Jew Oppenheimer
shouted together in 1945 wittingly
After the first test nuclear succeeded, loudly:

'I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

I remember one of Mahatma Gandhi's quotes instantly:
(An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind)
Don't act hatefully, don't react vengefully,
This must be the moto of worlds, adopted practically
In order to live, work and enjoy the life peacefully.


Freyad Hugo
Dutch writer, poet, translator, author,