malika o'lahsen

It Took One Hundred Years

They are cutting up into pieces
My body and my sun
They are cutting them up into pieces
You
You will be white
You
You will be black
Hunger
Laziness
Unwillingness

It took
One hundred years
To make me a savage
It took
One hundred years
Even more

They are cutting everything up into pieces
Departments
Districts
They are clipping out pictures
With border barbed wire
They are cutting up my body
To make it into History

trans by Eric Sellin