judgement

I am Anubis
I Look at your heart
Is the weight of your life lighter than my feather of judgement?
Have you lived a life worthy of forgiveness?
Have you been kind to your servants?
To those entrusted to your care and justice
Human, look at your deeds and judge me accordingly
Look at me, and see the two faces of your perfidy
Odious humanity!
To enslave the world and its creatures for your comforts
To call me evil with your kennels of babies for slaughter

Me, a monster? with your garb of death?
garb of the millions of faces crying from the halls of the dead
The world, your kraal of prisoners
May the entirety of the Nile roar down your wretched throat 
And rinse you of your evil
May the Kalahari dry your greed until it finds a core of goodness
I roar an imprecation to your gods
Your gods that allow for death upon death, for humanity over life
I howl an imprecation. 
I owe you nothing for you took everything

I asked for nothing and you gave me death.

A portrait of a man under a night sky. Mogadishu, Somalia. ©Osman [@osmanao]

A group of kids lay idly on the beach. Winneba, Ghana. ©Ernest Ankomah

A man sits on a bench by the road side. Asmara, Eritrea. ©Naro Faro