Bronze Cymbals the Size of Mountains

by Roger Stoll / December 1st, 2024

No, it’s not possible,
They said.
You cannot stop the Hegemon, they said.
It will devour each one:
Russia, Palestine, Lebanon, Iran,
Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, China…
And then it will devour you.
There is nothing to be done.
We answered,
Perhaps that is true.
But we know who you are.
And what we know
Will eventually destroy you.
If not you, then your successors.
If not your successors,
Then their successors.
And when we destroy you,
The sound of our liberation
Will be like the crash
Of a thousand bronze cymbals
The size of mountains.
It will be so loud,
It will reverberate
Back in time.
Listen…
There…
Do you hear it?

Roger Stoll lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and has published articles, book reviews and political poetry in Black Agenda Report, Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Internationalist 360, Jewschool, Marxism-Leninism Today, MintPress News, MRonline, New Verse News, Orinoco Tribune, Popular Resistance, Resumen Latinoamericano, San Francisco Examiner, and ZNet. Read other articles by Roger.

This article was posted on Sunday, December 1st, 2024 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.