Not Knowing Your Cause

You are the wrongfully accused,
I am a Jew from America.
I know you. Always disbelieved
because you are born wrong

in a dangerous time.
I know what your true martyrdom is,
not what you think. All of us
pretending to live in freedom

will one day thank you.
We never really wanted freedom,
to be free is to be frightened.
But you will salvage what

we enjoy of it. You will
be punished for us, perhaps die
martyred, not even
knowing your cause.

When justice
finally decends,
you will be permitted your voice
and we all will speak.