Not I

From the safety of distance
and historical time
I pontificate about the hatred
and injustice of the human condition.

Dachau,
Hiroshima,
Chabra and Chatilla,
Emmett Till
and I say it was
not I.

And what do I
have to do with
Darfur,
Zimbabwe,
Afghanistan,
Iraq
no certainly it is
not I.

And what of the problems
of poverty and despair
in Central America,
Bangladesh,
Cambodia,
any city or rural area USA
obviously these are
not I.

"Certainly this man
also was with him;
for he is a Galilean"

"Man, I do not know
what you are saying."

Not I.