Hear me!
Eyes avert
Down, around
Through curtains
The world shouts
FUCK YOU!
A hush falls
Stillness
Troops led
I hear you now
Is said
Bombs drop
Blood runs
Torrential rains
Shrouded forms
Shrugged away
Shattered lives
Fuck you!
You’ll pay
Don’t stay!
Blocked views
Feigned desires
Severed bonds
Who’s to blame?
Party’s over
New day
Bonds to sell
Into dreams
Hell
She shook her fist in the eyes of the enemy and yelled,
FIGHT!
She held her hand up and whispered, stop.
She walked; she marched, for miles and miles
Across desert, a hard pan earth
Through sand, and rocks, and storms that followed
Through cold, through sun scorching heat, until she could go
no more
Gather around, she said to her children
For this is your home, this is your life, for the rest of
our lives.
The enemy surrounds us, but holds its tongue on the edge of
war
It waits, it watches, for the right time, for the next time,
for the only time
Claiming our land, a sparse piece of dirt we called home
We can rest, now; gather our strength for the next flight
We call this living
We take a breath, for the next fight
We call this
surviving
Because we know there
will be a next fight
And a next
And a next
Lay down your sack
Lay down your head
Just a sip of water
They are sure to come
back
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