Shylock The Jew Poem by Freeyad Ibrahim

By Freeyad Ibrahim

Muhammad, the Arabian prophet,
called the Jews the Brothers of Monkeys,
and massacred them
Brutely.

Middle Age England banned the Jews
from entering the land
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
being 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
after the first test nuclear succeeded:
'I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.'
Wittingly, loudly.

I still remember one of Mahatma Gandhi's quote:
(An eye for an eye Makes the whole world Blind.)

This quote must be the motto
of the world of Now,
adopted Practically,
In order to live and work
Peacefully!


Freyad Hugo
writer, poet, translator, author