Gretha, Full of Hate by Charl Landsberg

Gretha, Gretha, full of hate:
the ‘gospel’ you expectorate,
adds fuel to violence, bloodshed, death and tears.

Your faith and hate together muddied,
have left your hands a tad bit bloodied,
in union with your genocidal peers.

With that ‘gospel’, so-called, that you preach,
the better your victims stay out of reach,
than stay and anguish near your sorry state.

If god exists despite your shame,
she’d call you by your guilty name:
Gretha, Gretha, Gretha, full of hate.

Charl Landsberg is a queer poet who’s work often focusses on issues of social justice.