What are you?
You have tortured me
You have murdered me
You have raped me
You have shamed me.
Who are you
and why
have you done this?
You have tried to close my mind
told me fairy tales
and brainwashed
me with superstitions.
Why?
What do you want from me?
To follow you?
To copy you?
To conform to you?
Because you found God?
Are you sure?
Are you sure
you know the way?
It seems to me you have
not
only lost your way
but you never knew the way.
You bring a message?
From whom?
From where?
What is your message?
Justice?
I don’t see any justice?
I only see brutality, injustice, brainwashing, superstition, ignorance,
stupidity, greed, incompetence, corruption, lies, cheating, and
oppression.
Are these what the messenger of God told you to bring to us?
From where do you bring the message?
From Hell?
Are you the Devil?
Then if you are
not
then why can’t I ask questions?
Why can’t I walk in the streets in peace?
Why can’t I breathe?
Why won’t you let me think, believe, talk, share, organize, dress,
protest, question, worship, surf, swim, climb, and live?
Why can’t you see the truth?
Why can’t you see God?
I once loved a young woman.
She was a Bahai.
She was an angel.
Why do you want to kill angels?
Are you sure you are not the Devil?
Now you pick a fight with the Jews,
a people that have been
our friends,
neighbors,
brothers and sisters,
a thousand years before you invaded.
Are you proud of your ignorance
of six million dead?
Of your superstition?
Of your oppression?
Of your non-Iranian culture?
I am Iran.
What are you?
