Historians will speculate
Who started first.
The occupiers will lie,
Others will play along.
Those who saw and knew —
Will remember
And from fear will keep silent.

Behind sycophant Nestor
They hide from the truth.
With the victor-aggressor
They do not argue,
Onto the conquered land MERRILY
Strangers settle in.

In time they will call the lands primordial
The center and the outskirts.
Murdered Abel
They will give over to oblivion,
And they will proclaim Cain a saint.