We were there first. Our timeless indigeneity in the
Holy Land documented in sacred scripture and in
aged historical accounts testament to that ancient
heritage of ancestral land time and again occupied
by triumphant conquest yet though we were forced
into exile and were distributed in a mass diaspora
worldwide we never left that land for among our
forbears were immovable, devoted caretakers
awaiting our return. Now, those who present as rivals
to claim the land as theirs alone prepared to mount
as many death counts as they deem necessary to
rout us from our home leaving the land saturated
in our blood, hound us wherever we have journeyed
for haven. There too they threaten and torment us
to disrupt our lives and dispel the mirage of
security abroad, taunting us with violence and death
proclaiming those lands too their very own, soon
to be wrenched from the hands of those who
welcomed them as migrants and refugees in sheer
force of numbers sufficient to embolden their
outright demands to recognize the land as their
caliphate, one where our presence is forbidden and
should their brash threats bear consequences there
will be nowhere left for us to turn to, a living relic
of times long past where we have endured bearing
the burden assigned to us, a light unto the world.
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