Miguk/미국 (Měiguó/美国), you Master Manipulator

Image description: Children gather around the Statue of Liberty, looking up in awe at the dollars she offers. Pictured in the background is a handshake between the U.S. flag and the Rising Sun flag. 

You’ve established such a heroic image

Of yourself

To the democratic world:

Savior, Protector

Beautiful Country of Freedom

Land of Rights

Even those you subjugate

Sing your praises,

Readily accepting the heroic story

You’ve so cunningly twisted

Enabling you to pursue

Your hidden agenda

To influence, expand, colonize,

Oppress. 

Miguk, you Master Manipulator

You obscure the past

With your focus on one narrative –

One twisted narrative:

That you saved 

“Our people,” “our country”

From the Red Threat

During our “Civil War.”

You groomed our people

Bringing chocolates and candies

To the impoverished 

Children of Korea

Who began to see the world

Through your eyes

Enabling you to

Oppress.

Miguk, you Master Manipulator

Your strategically curated narrative

Is the Lethe of our people 

Causing us to forget 

Your sugar-coated oppression

Your secret betrayal

Your complicity

Your collusion

In the aggressive attempts of the eradication

Of our culture

Of our language,

Of the sexual enslavement

Of our girls

And our women

By the Land of the Rising Sun.

Enabling Japan to

Oppress.