When in this city,
you demand this property
of increasing value,
claiming it to be yours from another time,
Then I say,
“What of humanity?”
Can’t you see,
if you keep on taking
an eye for an eye
you’ll make the whole world blind.
Then I say,
“What of yesterday?”
Why not the day before?
When this land was
not ruled by man,
mandir, mosque, or church?
Let’s go all the way back, then,
and let the dinosaurs rule the earth.