Thursday, 22 October 2026

You Don’t Exist


Your history is evil,

And by the way, you don’t exist,

You never were a people,

But everything you did collectively was wrong.

Your history is one of exploitation,

The place you dwelt was not your nation,

Your existence is a fact of legislation,

That is all,

And we legislate for others now,

Conjuring with documentation,

A people who do exist,

In bureaucracy’s imagination,

For we list them,

On a system,

And endow them with a history, collectively,

Named ‘The Benefit of Immigration’.


Your history is wonderful,

And by the way, you don’t exist,

You never were a people,

But everything you did collectively was marvellous,

Your history is one of getting things right,

Of doing things that suited you

As a non existent people 

Who knew how to fight,

For what was good and true

As you thought in terms of universal principles.

You never were a people 

Nor a group of sovereign nations,

Just a mass of generalisations,

You had no collective identity,

Every one of you was a non entity,

Atomised, smaller than small,

But collectively, you had a way,

Of making sure that what you had to say,

Was absolutely fitting, for all.