cultural housekeeping.

Genocide? We prefer to call it cultural housekeeping.  

They will not call it what it is.

They will name it security.

Defense.

Cultural preservation.

A regrettable necessity.

They will tell you it is complicated.

But it is not complicated.

It is cruel.

It is ordinary.

And it happens because forgetting is easier

than remembering you are made of the same blood.

That you carry the same needs.

The same hopes.

The same quiet, aching wants.