24307 - The barbarism

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Athena Kehagias

The barbarism
of the Turkish authorities
never stopped
as they assume
that only they
have a right
to a life of freedom
and that everyone else
must have the slavery
of their system
imposed upon them
as they consider them
subhuman
by their standards
since they’ve learned
to only respect
the enemy intimidation
and never the substance
of humanity.